Matt Burriesci

Matt Burriesci is the author of "Dead White Guys: A Father, his Daughter, and the Great Books of the Western World," and "Nonprofit," which won the AWP Award for the Novel. He is the Executive Director of the Providence Athenaeum, an institution devoted to advancing the humanities. He began his career at the Tony-Award winning Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and has served as Executive Director of both the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP). During his work at AWP, he helped build the largest literary conference in North America.