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Matthew Kressel, Author at Reactor

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Matthew Kressel

Photo Matthew Kressel is a multiple Nebula and World Fantasy Award nominated author and coder. His many works of short fiction have appeared in Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, Analog, Asimov's, Tor.com/Reactor, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and many other publications and anthologies, including multiple Year's Bests. He is the author of the short story collection Histories Within Us (Senses Five Press, Feb 2025), the far-future adventure novel Space Trucker Jess (Fairwood Press, Jul 2025), and the Mars-based novella The Rainseekers (Tordotcom, Feb 2026). Alongside Ellen Datlow, he runs the Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series in Manhattan. And he is the creator of the Moksha submissions system, used by many of the largest fiction publishers today. Photo credit: Christine Kressel