Award-Winning Author & Poet
Forest for the Trees & Other Stories
Published in 2023 and Winner at the Paris Book Festival (formerly known as the Salon du Livre), Forest for the Trees & Other Stories delivers a diverse collection of fifteen short stories that perfectly captures characters steeped in their own troubles.
Heaven and Other Zip Codes
Published in 2020, Mathieu Cailler’s debut novel Heaven and Other Zip Codes follows the complicated relationships between lonely, thirty-something-year-old mother Searcy, her awkward preadolescent son Theo, cheating husband and disingenuous stepfather Hoit, and young, attractive, painter-turned-after-school-tutor Emerson.
Hi, I’m Night
Published in 2020, Hi, I’m Night is a modern-day myth written from the perspective of a wise woman named Night. Night time can be scary for children, and this book explains that night is restorative, tranquil, and nothing to fear—a perfect bedtime story.
Catacombs of the Heart
Published in 2019, Mathieu Cailler’s poetry takes a soulful look at the human experience in both micro and macro form, exploring second chances, consanguinity, technology, death, and the overall din of daily life.
The (Underappreciated) Life of Humphrey of Hawley
Published in 2018, “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.
May I Have This Dance
Published in 2017, Mathieu Cailler’s poetry tugs at the heart strings by taking an introspective look at the human condition in terms of love, loss, joy, and sorrow.
Loss Angeles
Published in 2015, Mathieu Cailler’s debut collection of short stories, weaves tales which bring to life the deeply-human experience with loss and its range of outcomes.
Heaven & Other Zip Codes
My novel, which was just called “a postmodern masterpiece” by Midwest Book Review, is now available (print and e-book) wherever books are sold! …
Cailler is indeed a writer to be admired and read for years to come.
— Sophfronia Scott, author of All I Need to Get By
Clearly author Mathieu Cailler is a master of the short story format…
— Midwest Book Review
Cailler helps us see and hear flesh-and-blood people with a calm, clear-eyed sureness.
— Easy Reader, Ron Arias