The Giant

Matt Salyer and Tim Larsen

Matt Salyer is a writer, an Assistant Professor of English at West Point, and a Captain in the Army Reserve. His work has appeared (or is forthcoming) in Narrative, Poetry Northwest, Massachusetts Review, New Orleans Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and numerous other journals. He was Beloit's 2015 nominee for the Pushcart Prize and a 2016 finalist for the Iowa Review Prize. His first book, Ravage and Snare, is forthcoming. He lives in New York with two small daughters. When he is not working, he does things to try to impress them. Sometimes it works.

 

Tim Larsen studied painting, printmaking, and drawing at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He received an MFA from the University of North Dakota. He has worked on a number of independent comics including Dustbowl, Double Barrel, Mayfield Eight, and an adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s Filth. He lives in Northern California.