Matthew Tysz

I was born on May 24th, 1989, and raised on Long Island, where I attended a small town public school. My vocational path has taken me down many roads, from retail, to used car sales, to high school security, working in a network or group homes to working as a nighttime patient sitter at my local hospital. I’m a homebody at heart, though I possess this strange fondness for city life, with an especially painful attraction to Manhattan (a place which I have lovingly destroyed in several of my stories). I love people, though I often find I keep them at arm’s length. I love watching people, ruminating on their behavior and building little stories out of my predictions as to what each man or woman I see is going to do next. Most especially, I like to imagine them in different settings, extraordinary settings, and ponder the discoveries of such extreme displacement. I’ve always believed that chaos is the muse of creation, and a good story is often driven by the choices made in the wake of madness. www.matthewtysz.com @MatthewTysz