Matt Gallagher is a former US Army captain and the author of the acclaimed Iraq War memoir Kaboom, based on the popular and controversial blog he kept while he was deployed. He holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia and has written for the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, and The Paris Review, among others. His new novel Youngblood was named one of the weblog The Millions most anticipated books of 2016. He lives with his wife in Brooklyn.
