Matthew Davis, Eric & Wendy Schmidt Fellow, is the founding director of the Cheuse Center for International Writers at George Mason University. He’s the author of When Things Get Dark: A Mongolian Winter’s Tale and his work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the Washington Post Magazine, and Guernica, among other places. In addition to being an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellow at New America, he has been a Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute at UNLV and a Fulbright Fellow to Syria and Jordan. He holds an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa and an MA in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He is currently working on a book about the making and meaning of Mt. Rushmore.
