Matthew Quinn Martin is an American actor and writer of films and short fiction. Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania

Allentown, Pennsylvania

Allentown is a city located in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is Pennsylvania's third most populous city, after Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and the 215th largest city in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 118,032 and is currently...

, he grew up in New Haven Connecticut

Connecticut

Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south .Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately...

. Martin is a graduate of Albertus Magnus College

Albertus Magnus College

Albertus Magnus College is a small private liberal arts college in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. It is located about two miles from the central campus of Yale University in a residential area near the border with Hamden. The neighborhood is on Prospect Street just above Edgerton park and...

, and holds and MFA from Stonecoast University of Southern Maine

University of Southern Maine

The University of Southern Maine is a multi-campus public urban comprehensive university and part of the University of Maine System. USM's three primary campuses are located in Portland, Gorham, and Lewiston...

. He is of mixed European heritage, including Hungarian, Ukrainian and Penn Dutch.

Martin's original screenplay Slingshot was made into a feature film by Bold Films and is distributed by the Weinstein Company. Slingshot premiered at the TriBeCa Film Festival

Tribeca Film Festival

The Tribeca Film Festival is a film festival founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff in a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the TriBeCa neighborhood in Lower Manhattan.The mission of the festival...

 and was featured on Access Hollywood

Access Hollywood

Access Hollywood is a weekday television entertainment news program covering events and celebrities in the entertainment industry. It was created by former Entertainment Tonight executive producer Jim Van Messel, and is currently directed by Robert Silverstein. In previous years, Doug Dougherty and...

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His short fiction has appeared in Transition Magazine

Transition Magazine

Transition Magazine , founded by Rajat Neogy , a Ugandan of Indian ancestry, was published from 1961 to 1976 on the African continent and was revived in 1991 in the United States. Born in Africa and bred in the Diaspora, Transition is a unique forum for the freshest, most compelling, most curious...

, Thuglit, The Oddville Press, MFA/MFYou Literary Journal, Aphelion Webzine, The Flash Fiction Offensive, A Twist of Noir, and The Crossing Chaos Anthology: Quantum Genre on the Planet of Arts (co-written with Libby Cudmore

Libby Cudmore

Libby Cudmore is a writer of short fiction.Cudmore's essays and fiction have been published Libby Cudmore is a writer of short fiction.Cudmore's essays and fiction have been published Libby Cudmore is a writer of short fiction.Cudmore's essays and fiction have been published (or are forthcoming in...

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As an actor he has appeared in the remodernist film

Remodernist Film

Remodernist film developed in the United States and the United Kingdom in the early 21st century with ideas related to those of the international art movement Stuckism and its manifesto, Remodernism...

 Shooting at the Moon, and P.S. I Love You

P.S. I Love You (film)

P.S. I Love You is a 2007 American drama film directed by Richard LaGravenese. The screenplay by LaGravenese and Steven Rogers is based on the 2004 novel of the same name by Cecelia Ahern. The film is dedicated to the memory of producer Molly Smith's sister Windland Smith Rice.-Plot:Holly and Gerry...

, and was a minor recurring co-star on the first season of the TV show Fringe

Fringe (TV series)

Fringe is an American science fiction television series created by J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. The series follows a Federal Bureau of Investigation "Fringe Division" team based in Boston, Massachusetts under the supervision of Homeland Security...

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Selected publications

• "Command Performance": 2009, Transition Magazine
  Transition Magazine
  Transition Magazine , founded by Rajat Neogy , a Ugandan of Indian ancestry, was published from 1961 to 1976 on the African continent and was revived in 1991 in the United States. Born in Africa and bred in the Diaspora, Transition is a unique forum for the freshest, most compelling, most curious...
  
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• "Chickens": 2009, Thuglit #33
• "Spinning": 2009, MFA/MFYou #2
• "Hazardous Material": 2009, Aphelion Webzine #136

External links

• Slingshot at the Internet Movie Database
  Internet Movie Database
  Internet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...