Matthew Thorburn

Poet

Princeton, NJ
New Jersey US

Author's Bio

Matthew Thorburn is the author of six collections of poetry, including Dear Almost: A Poem (LSU Press, 2016) and the chapbook A Green River in Spring (Autumn House Press, 2015). He lives in New Jersey and works in corporate communications.

Publications & Prizes

Books:
This Time Tomorrow (Waywiser Press, 2013)
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Every Possible Blue (WordTech Communications, 2012)
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Subject to Change (New Issues Press, 2004)
Chapbook:
Disappears in the Rain (Parlor City Press, 2009)
Journals: , ,
Mississippi Review
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Paris Review
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Prizes won: 

Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, selected by U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic; Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference; BRIO Fellowship from the Bronx Council on the Arts; Mississippi Review Prize; Festivo Prize (Belfast, ME Poetry Festival)

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
MI
Michigan
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Last update: Apr 06, 2018