Mattue Roth

Matthue Roth was, for one afternoon, in charge of all the Smithsonian’s collection of human skeletal remains. He has also, unrelatedly, worked as a secretary at a morgue and a baker in a restaurant adjacent to a cemetery in Prague. His work has been published in Ploughshares, Tin House, the Saturday Evening Post, and the Kenyon Review. His book My First Kafka was called “eerie and imaginative” by The New Yorker. He is a single father in Brooklyn with four daughters and by day, is a writer at Google.