Matthew Torralba Andrews (he/him) is a writer and editor based in northern Arizona. He is the author of How to Build a Bridge Across the Ocean, winner of the C&R Press Summer Tide Pool Chapbook Award and forthcoming Fall 2025. His fiction has appeared in Apogee, Bellingham Review, Cincinnati Review, Sonora Review, South Carolina Review, and elsewhere. He is an alum of the Tin House Workshop and the Community of Writers Workshop. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Eastern Washington University and serves as an Assistant Editor at River Styx Magazine.
CHAPBOOK
How to Build a Bridge Across the Ocean: Stories. C&R Press. Forthcoming.
SELECT STORY PUBLICATIONS
“Santo Niño.” Foglifter. Forthcoming.
“The Shack.” Puerto del Sol (El Morro: Southwest Mini-Feature). Summer 2025. Print.
“From the San Francisco Volcanic Field, January 2024.” Ricepaper Magazine. Fall 2024. Online.
“Forest of Stone.” Sonora Review. Fall 2024. Online.
“Silhouettes” and “Island Hopping.” Cincinnati Review. Summer 2024. Online.
featured in CLMP’s “A Reading List for Filipino American History Month 2024”
“The Shore.” Apogee. Spring 2024. Online.
nominated for the Best Microfiction 2025 anthology
“Manila, Arizona.” Bellingham Review. Winter 2024. Online.
“Smoke.” Bellingham Review. Winter 2024. Online.
“To Make Him Happy.” South Carolina Review. Fall 2023. Print.
“Zac.” BULL. Spring 2023. Online.
“Speak Low.” Cotton Xenomorph. Summer 2021. Online.
SELECT HONORS & JURIED WORKSHOPS
Winner, C&R Press Summer Tide Pool Chapbook Award, 2025
Finalist, The Florida Review Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award, 2025
Finalist, Gigantic Sequins Flash Fiction Contest, 2024
Shortlist, The Masters Review Small Fiction Award, 2023
Finalist, Arkansas International Emerging Writer’s Prize in Fiction, 2022
Participant, Tin House Autumn Workshop (Short Fiction), 2022
Participant, Community of Writers Workshop (Short Fiction), 2020
Recipient, Florence & Earl Stewart Creative Writing Scholarship, Eastern Washington University, 2019-2020
SELECT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Assistant Editor, River Styx Magazine, 2024-Present
Creative Nonfiction Reader, River Styx Magazine, 2023-2024
Writing Tutor and Workshop Coordinator, Eastern Washington University Writers’ Center, 2019-2021
Fiction Editorial Assistant, Willow Springs Magazine, 2019-2021
Managing Editor, Forum Magazine, 2019
Fiction Editor, Forum Magazine, 2018
Painted Desert, Petrified Forest National Park, 2023 (Photo by Matthew Torralba Andrews)