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Matthew Bucknor

Matthew Bucknor
Matthew Bucknor is a physician and writer based in San Francisco. His fiction has been shortlisted for prizes by Glimmer Train and The Sewanee Review and has received support from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Tin House Summer Workshop. He received his MFA in Fiction from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and is on the Executive Board of Stanford’s Pegasus Physician Writers.


Matthew Bucknor on The White Lotus and the Literary Power of the Accusatory Moment

“You can’t do that Rick! You made the accusation. You can’t go back!”
April 18, 2025  By Matthew Bucknor
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