A small sample/selected list of published work:
You May Now Fail To Destroy Me: American Writers on Their Most Dangerous Beliefs: an anthology of new & urgent writing compiled & published by Blake Butler & Ken Baumann (Glossary of a Gringo Lunatic , September 2025) (Nonfiction)
The Airgonaut (Paratrooper Pedagog y, September 2025)
A Thin Slice of Anxiety (Worst of Our Species , August 2025)
BULL (Dakota, Slumber Party Suicide Pact , NyQuil Chicken Lullaby , February 2025)
The Cantabrigian (WYOMING experimental fiction anthology, December 2024)
Call Me [Brackets] (Vomiting Screwdrivers the Night Before the O.J. Simpson Verdict, December, 2024) (Nonfiction)
Frazzled Lit (Boomerang Children , October 2024)
Gambling the Aisle (Sugarplum Fairy Dust , September 2024)
BULL (Burger King Ball Pit , Forgotten Baby Syndrome , Flamingo Spaceship , September 2024)
The Pinnacle (Suicide Letter From the Only Child of an OnlyFans Model , July 2024)
Splatter Mag (Letter from Garcia’s Mexican Restaurant to Edgar Allan Poe Forbidding Edgar and Virginia from Attending Cinco de Mayo Fiestas Forever More , June 2024)
Bullshit Lit (Hell is Hugging My Grandchildren , April 2024)
Barely South Review (Glossary of an Axe Murderer , March 2024) (Nonfiction)
BULL (Fat Camp Syllabus , March 2024)
Thrice (Mountain High Pizza Pie , January 2019)
Danse Macabre (Barbie Dolls and Dodge Balls (Pride Month, 2010 reprint), June 2018)
Fanzine (Connected at the Skull, September 2017)
*Longlisted in Wigleaf’ s TOP 50 Fiction of 2017
Fred’s Diary 1981 (Insignificant Illegal Immigrant Living in a Third World Country , June 2017) (Nonfiction)
FRiGG (Goodbye, Homer ; That Night Grandma Guzzled Bong Water ; Crawlspace , November 2016)
*Nominated for The Best Small Fictions 2017
DOGZPLOT (How I Got My Gangsta Rap Name , January 2016)
*Nominated for Sundress Publications’ 2015 Best of the Net Anthology
Dam , December 2015) (Nonfiction)
Pear Drop (Hazards of Underpants , September 2015)
Literary Orphans (Penis Factory ; The Inflatable Family ; The Gravitron ; Our Son, Fresh from Fat Camp , April 2015)
Maudlin House (Once Got Busy in a Burger King Bathroom , April 2015)
*Winner of Fred’s Diary monthly paying essay contest
Maudlin House (Getting Blunted at the Family Barbecue , October 2014)
mojo (author interview with Matthew B. Dexter, February 2014)
2014)
Gravel (Carretera , January 2014)
NAP (Paratrooper Pedagogy , June 2013)
Litro (The Bird in the Urn , April 2013)
Juked (The Search Party , December 2012)
Shotgun Honey (An Elephantine Metathesis of a Zamboni Driver , October 2012)
Metazen (Lemonade Stand Princess , October 2012)
Bluestem Magazine (Walmart Dreams Big While Children Weep and Get Raped in the Aisles , June 2012)
NAP (The Bus Route, May 2012)
Nazar Look (The Secrets of One Little Girl , May 2012)
Contrary (Restraining Order , April 2012)
*Longlisted in Wigleaf’ s TOP 50 Fiction of 2012
*First published in Writers´ Bloc where it won the 2010 Sacrifice Paying Fiction Contest
*Selected as a Notable Story of 2010 in the StorySouth Million Writers Award
House Fire (For all the Freckles on one Hand , January 2012)
13 Extraordinary Things (What the Hell is the Point in Lighting Another Bottle Rocket off the George Washington Bridge? , January 2012)
Daily Love (Why I Will Never Name a Star After Her , January 2012)
Clever Mag (Exorbitant Spoiled Children Eat Free , January 2012)
Salt. (The Bus Route , December 2011)
Salt. (Headmaster’s Holiday , December 2011)
Blue Yellow Dog (Campaign Advisor; Forgive me America; Letter to the Unborn Baby , December 2011)
Red Fez (Breaking into the Boarding School Infirmary , November 2011)
decomP (Sunken Ancestry , November 2011)
elimae (The War on Drugs Beneath the Border , November 2011)
Petricho Review (Brother Knows Best, so Carve Some Hearts and Unicorns; Though He Had No Fever , October 2011)
Menacing Hedge (The Cabin (terrible unpublished poem written circa 1997-1998, October 2011)
Storied (Dear Carmen , October 2011)
Pipe Dream (Fortune-telling: Day by Day , September 2011)
Scissors and Spackle (Brother Knows Best, so Carve Some Hearts and Unicorns ; Degenerate Reckoning ; Though He Had No Fever , September 2011)
elimae (The Fall; Somalia Drought , September 2011)
Storied (Forgiving Wind , September 2011)
*Longlisted in Wigleaf’ s TOP 50 Fiction of 2011
Pure Slush (The Disintegration of the Human Soul , July 2011)
Stymie Magazine (Outward Bound: to Serve, to Strive, and Not to Yield , June 2011)
elimae (Empty Bedroom; Parisian; Raping the Sea, May 2011)
*(Empty Bedroom ) Longlisted in Wigleaf’ s TOP 50 Fiction of 2011
Red Fez (Rafters of the Rink , March 2011)
Berg Gasse 19 (Breaking into the Boarding School Infirmary , February 2011)
The Scarlet Sound (Collect Call , January 2011)
Pure Slush (Sad istic Aroma of Rubber , January 2011)
*Chosen by storySouth Million Writers Award as a notable story of 2010
Metazen (Confessions of a Tanning Madam , November 2010)
Metazen (An interview with little old me in Metazen , November 2010)
Black Heart Magazine (A Day in the Life of a Culinary School Graduate in a Bad Economy , November 2010)
Milk Sugar (Cold German Beer and a Warm Fire , October 2010)
A-Minor Magazine (Why You Should Be Nice to the Lady at the Laundromat , August 2010)
*Nominated for Sundress Publications’ 2011 Best of the Net Anthology
LITnIMAGE (How to Sing Lullabies to a Guerrilla , July 2010)
*Winner of the 2010 sacrifice-themed fiction contest
*Chosen by storySouth Million Writers Award as a notable story of 2010
The Moon (Climbing With the Crabs , June 2010)
*Nominated for Sundress Publications’ 2010 Best of the Net Anthology
Neon (Border of My Mind , May 2010)
Neon (Maintenance , May 2010)
PicFic (Burrito Bullet , April 2010)
Writers’ Bloc (How I started a Literary Journal with Arnold Palmer , April 2010)
Rejection Digest (How to Keep Your Surgical Mask Fashionable after Swine Flu Season , April 2010)
Word Riot (Brotherly Love , January 2010)
Writers’ Bloc (Peace, Love and Crabs , January 2010)
vis a tergo (The Prosperous Cliff Diver , December 2009)
Down in the Dirt (Sand Castles in the Storm , December 2009)
Breadcrumbs Sins (An Afternoon in Tijuana , December 2009)
Litsnack (Easter Bonnet , December 2009)
Ampersand Review (The Perfect Circus , December 2009)
The Legendary (American Consulate Doldrums in Mexico , November 2009)
50-to-1 (Benevolent Beggar , November 2009)
Static Movement (Turbulance over Tampa , November 2009)
Johnny America (Crocodile Tears , October 2009)
Burst Fiction (Head Shot , September 2009)
Midnight in Hell (The Perfect Circus , September 2009)
Writers’ Bloc (Swim Meet , September 2009) *Chosen by storySouth Million Writers Award as a notable story of 2009
A Golden Place (Lying and Driving , September 2009)
Kalkion (The Chopping Block , August 2009)
Piker Press (Summer School , July 2009)
Zygote in my Coffee (The Pig in the Swine Flu Costume , June 2009)
>kill author ( Imaginary Friends , June 2009)
Full of Crow (Hornet’s Nest , May 2009)
Bartleby Snopes (The Jelly Bean Gambler , April 2009)
Static Movement (The Suicidal Butterfly , April 2009; Fall 2007 in print)
Flask and Pen (The Vanity Crisis , March 2009)
Clockwise Cat (Mexican Marching Ants , December 2008)
Shattercolors (The Time Capsule , October 2008)
Shattercolors (The Pirate Suitor , April 2008)
Below is a small sample of published poetry:
Blue Yellow Dog ( Campaign Adviser; Forgive me America; Letter to the Unborn Baby , December 2011)
Pipe Dream (Fortune-telling: Day by Day , September 2011)
elimae (The Fall; Somalia Drought , September 2011)
elimae (Empty Bedroom; Parisian; Raping the Sea, May 2011)
Anastomoo (Puerto Vallarta Mexico, Untitled Beach Poem , June 2010)
Unfold (Seeing Red , June 2010)
Unfold (Where’s the Broom?, June 2010)
Joyful (Her Song of Hope , August 2009)
Many of Mateo’s stories are published in books. Hundreds of books. Dozens of anthologies also. Go buy a copy and mail it to your grandmother. She will love it.
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