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Paul Matthew Jessup (born August 14th, 1977) is an American writer.

He is a critically acclaimed writer of fantastical fiction. He’s been published in many magazines, both offline and on, with two books published in 2009 (short novel, Open Your Eyes and the short story collection Glass Coffin Girls) and a third to come out in 2010 (the illustrated book, Werewolves) .

He is known for creating strange, surreal stories that take the basic symbols of fairy tales and combining it with literary, contemporary settings and themes so that they create a sort of dissonance in the reader.

His novella, Open Your Eyes has been called groundbreaking by Analog Magazine .

Novels

• Werewolves (2010 published by Chronicle Books)
• Open Your Eyes (2009 published by Apex Books)

Collections

• Glass Coffin Girls (2009 published by PS Publishing)

Short fiction

• A Futile Gesture Towards Truth (2010 published in Dark Faith Anthology)
• Heaven's Fire (2010 published in Sybil's Garage)
• The Last Stand of the Antmaker (2010 published in Apex Magazine)
• The Adventures of Petal (2009 published in Fantasy Magazine)
• A Word Without Ghosts (2009 published in Fantasy Magazine)
• Secret in the House of Smiles (2008 published in Clarkesworld Magazine)
• The Sea of Dead Around Her (2008 published in Postscripts Magazine)
• The Ghosts We Have Become (2008 published in Postscripts Magazine)
• Ghost Technology From the Sun (2008 published in Postscripts Magazine)
• The Ghosts We Have Become (2008 published in Postscripts Magazine)
• Mudskin (2008 published in Postscripts Magazine)
• Mister Waterbones and His Wife (2008 published in Farrago's Wainscot)
• Apple Magick (2008 published in Farrago's Wainscot)
• Postflesh (2008 published in Apex Magazine)
• The Happiness of Pinned Wings (2008 published in Graveyards Yawned Anthology)
• The Alchemy of War (2008 published in Electric Velocipede)

Anthologies edited

• Hatter Bones (2010 ENE Press)

Interviews

• Paul Jessup “Open Your Eyes” Interview(October 2009)
• Paul Jessup “Open Your Eyes” Interview(April 2009)
• Paul Jessup “Fantasy Magazine” Interview(March 2009)

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