Matthew Salesses is a Korean American fiction writer and essayist and Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in the MFA/PhD program at Oklahoma State University.

[1] He grew up in Storrs, Conn. and attended the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he studied English and creative writing.

[5] He is also the author of Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear: A Novel (Little A, 2020); Craft in the Real World (Catapult Books, 2021), an examination of American writing workshops and the incorporation of Asian storytelling traditions and methodology to broaden them; I'm Not Saying, I'm Just Saying (Civil Coping Mechanisms); Different Racisms: On Stereotypes, the Individual, and Asian American Masculinity (Thought Catalog Books); and The Last Repatriate (Nouvella).

[16] Commenting on the controversy, Molly Bradley of Digg called these contractual provisions "the kind of thing a right-winger would invent as a hyperbolic parody of what progressive leftists want.

"[17] In a subsequent statement to national media, Salesses expressed regret and rescinded "any kind of punishment" stated in the original contract.