I'm Matt. For almost twenty years I taught English and coached football at Phillips Exeter Academy. I have also taught or tutored at Stanford, Harvard Extension, the University of Massachusetts, and the New Hampshire State Prison for Men. I earned my BA at Yale where I was also a varsity football player. I earned an MFA in Writing and Literature at Emerson College and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. I am also an award winning poet and essayist. I am the author...
I'm Matt. For almost twenty years I taught English and coached football at Phillips Exeter Academy. I have also taught or tutored at Stanford, Harvard Extension, the University of Massachusetts, and the New Hampshire State Prison for Men. I earned my BA at Yale where I was also a varsity football player. I earned an MFA in Writing and Literature at Emerson College and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. I am also an award winning poet and essayist. I am the author of Tender the River, winner of the Independent Publishers of New England Book Award, finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Provocateur Award, and a finalist for the Jacar Press Julie Suk Award. the New Hampshire Poetry Society Book Award, and the Poetry by the Sea Book Award. Other books include the The Wounded for the Water, Club Icarus, selected by Major Jackson as the 2012 Vassar Miller Poetry Prize winner, and Cameo Diner: Poems. I have published work previously in Narrative, Rhino Poetry, Harvard Review, Adroit Journal, and Poetry Daily, among other journals and I was a winner of Nimrod International's Pablo Neruda Prize, the Poetry by The Sea Sonnet Sequence Contest, the River Styx Micro-fiction Prize, the Iron Horse Review's Trifecta Poetry Prize. I am the recipient of fellowships from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. I live with my family in coastal New Hampshire where I spend my free time surfing, skateboarding, and playing guitar badly. .
