International Book Awards Short-Story Fiction Finalist Best Book Awards Short-Story Fiction Finalist New York Book Festival Honorable Mention Hollywood Book Festival Honorable Mention In this superb debut collection of short stories, Mathieu Cailler weaves tales which bring to life the deeply-human experience with loss and its range of outcomes. From loneliness to recovered relationships, from despair to redemption, from heartbreak to humor, these fifteen stories illuminate the sadness, bewilderment, conflict and ultimate hope which can come from each human being's inevitable encounters with loss. Author Laurie Alberts writes: "LOSS ANGELES doesn't focus on the bright lights of Tinseltown, but rather on the quiet day-to-day pain of marginalized people paralyzed by loss, poor choices, obsessions, and love. These subtle, beautifully wrought, and richly realized stories showcase Cailler as an intrepid fiction writer who is always compassionate to his characters and their moral quandaries."

Loss Angeles

Literature & Fiction

Cailler, Mathieu

Short Stories & Anthologies

Short Story America

"Humphrey" is about a beetle who wants to be a ladybug because he sees the way ladybugs are loved by humans; however, after time spent pretending to be something he's not, he learns to love his world and, more importantly, himself.

The (Underappreciated) Life of Humphrey Hawley

Children's Books

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

A lonely wife, an unfaithful husband, an awkward son, and his tutor...?Heaven and Other Zip Codes follows the complicated relationships between lonely, thirty-something-year-old mother Searcy, her awkward prepubescent son Theo, cheating husband and disingenuous stepfather Hoit, and young, attractive, painter-turned-after-school-tutor Emerson. When anonymous letters accusing Hoit of infidelity start to arrive on the doorstep, Searcy develops feelings toward Emerson, and the family begins to fracture in the sunny Southern California suburb they call home. Will Searcy and Emerson act upon their feelings? Will Hoit's adulterous exploits come back to haunt him? Will the boys at school stop bullying Theo? And where exactly is the location of Heaven and Other Zip Codes??This contemporary novel explores family, guilt, manipulation, betrayal, and love.

Heaven and Other Zip Codes: A Novel

Genre Fiction

Open Books

"Catacombs of the Heart explores the loveliest and the most dreadful corners of existence. Its bittersweet accounts will break your heart, inspire you to see beauty in the mundane, and even, at times, make you laugh out loud. A gorgeous and powerful collection through and through."-Zara Lisbon, author of Fake Plastic Girl"Cailler's voice is unmistakable as he keenly observes his world, both inside and out. In poems that view the ordinary as extraordinary, Catacombs of the Heart is a collection that weaves together the emotions of our fragile and beautiful human coexistence." -Kali White VanBaale, author of The Monsters We Make and The Good Divide"In this poetry collection, the catacombs of the title are a fascinating repository of the 'things' that comprise a life. These catacombs are a magical mystery tour swerving along Southern California's freeways whereby the speaker encounters "a tango of perfume and Bay Rum cologne," "kisses that taste like Friday," or a homeless man explaining he imagines an assassination, while watching Bye-Bye Birdie, wouldn't be so bad. To one crucial line, 'maybe my brain isn't a series of nerves and pink-gooey folds, but a map, a globe, ' a reader can only nod in recognition. These poems with their stunning, surprising details, are bright, shining, revelatory globes." -Sue William Silverman, author of If the Girl Never Learns"A deeply moving portrayal of the complexities of the human heart. We all carry our own catacombs and Cailler's sharp, but balanced command of language makes his poems accessible and relatable. They deliver the message that maybe none of us are as alone as we think."-Racquel Henry, Founder of Black Fox Literary Magazine Mathieu Cailler is an award-winning author whose poetry and prose have been widely featured in numerous national and international publications, including the Los Angeles Times and The Saturday Evening Post. A graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts, he is the winner of a Short Story America Prize and a Shakespeare Award. He is the author of the short-story collection, Loss Angeles (Short Story America Press), which has been honored by the Hollywood, New York, London, Paris, Best Book, and International Book Awards; the poetry collection, May I Have This Dance? (About Editions), winner of the 2017 New England Book Festival Poetry Prize; and the children's book, The (Underappreciated) Life of Humphrey Hawley (About Editions), which has been nominated for the Caldecott Medal and the Newbery Award, among other notable prizes. Catacombs of the Heart is his second full-length poetry collection. Another children's book, Hi, I'm Night, is forthcoming from Olympia. For more information, please visit mathieucailler.com.

Catacombs of the Heart

Poetry

Luchador Press

In Forest for the Trees & Other Stories, Mathieu Cailler delivers a diverse collection of fifteen shorts that perfectly captures characters steeped in their own troubles. With clear and pointed prose, Cailler creates a conduit through which readers experience the characters' sufferings, losses, revelations, their moments of connection, and their snippets of happiness. The author's experimentation with voice and point of view makes this collection honest and accessible, allowing readers to feel true compassion by better understanding others and the imperfect world we all inhabit.

Forest for the Trees & Other Stories

United States

Hidden Peak Press

Award-winning author, Mathieu Cailler (Loss Angeles) extends his hands to readers in this new collection of poetry that brings about the same dizziness and gratification of dancing the night away. In his newest collection of poetry, Cailler tugs at the heart strings by taking an introspective look at the human condition in terms of love, loss, joy, and sorrow. Before readers can even make it to the book's end, they'll be answering Cailler's titular question with a loud and ready, "Yes."

May I Have This Dance?: Poetry

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