about
matthew
Matthew Clark Davison is the author of the novel Doubting Thomas (Amble Press, 2021), named a “Must-Read Book by Queer Authors” by Esquire, and the co-author, with bestselling writer Alice LaPlante, of The Lab: Experiments in Writing Across Genre (W.W. Norton, 2025). Together Davison and LaPlante recently co-founded The Lab Creative Writing, where they help writers reconnect with their passions and obsessions, deepen the aesthetics of works-in-progress, and discover the meaning and shape of their narratives through retreats, online workshops, one-on-one mentoring, and their craft book. His essays and stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines and journals, including The Atlantic Monthly, Guernica, and LitHub. He is Emeritus Faculty in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University.
Matthew earned a BA and MFA San Francisco State University, where he is now Emeritus Faculty in Creative Writing. Matthew served as the Chief Artistic Strategist at Performing Arts Workshop, where he worked for eleven years as a teaching artist and as a mentor to newly-hired teaching artists who bring intensive residencies in various art forms to Bay Area young people.
He has also coached writing at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and continues to coach established and aspiring writers on their creative manuscripts.
author photos by Robyn Navarro
high-res images of Doubting Thomas