Scallon, Matt

Born in 1959 in Chicago, Matt Scallon attended Oakton Community College in Morton Grove and Southern Illinois University Carbondale before earning a BBA in marketing at Loyola University Chicago. He spent his thirty-year career in the contract furniture industry in Chicago and Nashville.

His failed attempts to legalize backyard chickens in his hometown during 2012-2013 served as the inspiration for his book "The Virgin Coop: a broken trilogy". It is an unusual collection of highly imaginative short stories, poems, and vignettes that serves as a metaphor for a spiritual awakening. For Scallo...