Matthew Oliphant

Radha's dad Rion picks them up from school unexpectedly. Rion tells Radha that he got a present for them and thought it might be fun to walk home together and along the way Radha can guess what the present is. Radha has some pretty wild guesses! A steam train that delivers fried chicken? A barrac...

I went through old hard drives, notebooks, and the web to find all the poetry I’ve written. It’s not a lot, about 60 or so, but it was fun looking for them and revisiting some I’d not thought about for a few decades.This book is sort of a “collected works” edition. Some of the poems I’ve worked h...

He drifts through life disconnected. Even when a customer at the cafe he works at calls his attention to it, he doesn’t quite see it. When a volcano destroys his car and a friend offers a very cheap plane ticket, he decides to find out what life is like outside the rut. That is, assuming he’s in ...