Bio
Matty Lee received his GED from the Dade County School Board sometime in the late eighties. He went on to attend Los Angeles Community College but lost interest after Spanish I. He's been employed as a tree climber, a bartender, a medical research patient, a deckhand, a telephone repairman, a salesman, a fabric librarian, a night watchman, a grave digger, a customer service representative and on and on. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California where he loves to surf, read and play with small fury animals.
Writing
Matty Lee's writing first appeared in print when Tin House Literary Journal published the short story 35 Cents in their issue #15, The Sex Issue under the name Matt Hersh.
He has also been published in Christopher Russell's Bedwetter Magazine, Darin Klein's After Life, The Velvet Mafia and Fritz Haeg's Sundown Salon Book.
In 2006 his book 35 Cents was nominated for a Lambda Award for Best Memoir.