Matt Bondurant

Matt Bondurant’s novels include The Third Translation (2005), The Wettest County in the World (2008), The Night Swimmer (2012), and Oleander City (2022). The Wettest County in the World was a New York Times Editor’s Pick, and San Francisco Chronicle Best 50 Books of the Year. The Third Translation was an international bestseller, translated into 14 languages worldwide. Bondurant previously taught literary fiction and creative writing at George Mason University in Virginia, SUNY Plattsburgh, and University of Texas at Dallas. He currently teaches at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi.