{"id":36051,"date":"2024-04-30T12:33:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T19:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/?p=36051"},"modified":"2024-12-13T17:04:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T01:04:45","slug":"matthew-baker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/matthew-baker\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 93: Matthew Baker"},"content":{"rendered":"
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About Matthew Baker<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Matthew Baker<\/a> is the author of the graphic novel The Sentence<\/a><\/em>, the story collections Why Visit America<\/a> <\/em>and Hybrid Creatures<\/a><\/em>, and the children\u2019s novel Key Of X<\/a><\/em>. Stories have appeared in publications such as New York Times Magazine<\/em>, The Paris Review<\/em>, American Short Fiction<\/em>, One Story,<\/em>Electric Literature<\/em>, and Best American Science Fiction And Fantasy<\/em>. Digital experiments include the temporal fiction \u201cEphemeral,\u201d<\/a> the interlinked novel Untold<\/a><\/em>, the randomized novel Verses<\/a><\/em>, the intentionally posthumous Afterthought<\/a><\/em>, and the collaborative tete-a-tete Terminal<\/a><\/em>, along with the cyber zine Code Lit<\/a><\/em>. Born in the Great Lakes region of the United States, the author currently lives in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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A Profile of the Author<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Notes on “Stricken”<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I began writing “Stricken” on January 19 2021. Had been in quarantine for almost a year in an apartment in Manhattan. Writing nonstop. Day and night. Writing nonstop. Night and day. Like all of my stories, “Stricken” began as a concept. A narrator who would strikethrough words and phrases and clauses, strikethrough entire sentences, strikethrough entire paragraphs, in an attempt to negate negative thoughts. I finished the story on March 31 2021. Got vaccinated. Walked to the park in the rain. To be honest, I hadn’t expected to survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Music, Food, Booze, Tattoos, Kittens, etc.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I still have zero tattoos. I still have zero kittens. So what’s new in my life that maybe you’d want to know. About a year ago, May 5 2023, I decided that if I actually cared about the climate crisis then from now on I should do whatever was necessary to power my computer with green energy. I dropped half a grand on some solar gear. My starter kit was a Goal Zero Nomad 50<\/a> panel and a Goal Zero Sherpa 100AC<\/a> battery. With those my writing is now 100% solar-powered. These words you’re reading now were 100% solar-powered. “Stricken,” unfortunately, was powered by fossil fuels, although all of the stories from my fossil-fuel era have since been offset by a giant sequoia in the Great Reserve<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stricken by Matthew Baker<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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