About the Author
Matt Athanasiou is an award-nominated horror and fantasy author. Some of his stories are for adults, some are for children, and some creepy-crawl between.
If you spot him doodling monsters among the skeletal skyscrapers of Chicago, wandering like a curious cryptid beneath the quaking aspen of Wisconsin, or haunting the laden greenery of New Orleans or Scotland, he welcomes pizza recommendations and cat pics.
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Awards and Recognition
Top 10 winner in Ulysses’s Short Story Contest celebrating Disney’s Flora & Ulysses, with writers Kate DiCamillo and Brad Copeland as judges.
Silver Honorable Mention in The Writer’s of the Future Contest.
Nomination for the storySouth Million Writers Award.
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Scrolling for Inspiration?
Matt loves a blank page. There is potential in a blank page, dreams and wishes and even a little fear—see horror vacui—that make him want to fill the space.
Related to his reasons for the original design of this site, he created this section to stop readers from scrolling and inspire them to make something.
Here’s how. Simply click the blank page link below—it opens in a new tab—and let your imagination, and maybe a smidge of that fear, fill the vastness with ideas unique to you.