Matt Donovan (poet)

Matt Donovan (born Ohio) is an American poet and nonfiction writer. A native of Hudson, Ohio, Donovan graduated from Vassar College with a BA, from Lancaster University with an MA, and from New York University with an MFA. He teaches at Santa Fe University of Art and Design.[1]

He is the author of two collections of poetry – Vellum (Mariner, 2007) and the chapbook Ten Burnt Lakes (Tupelo Press, forthcoming 2017) – as well as the collection of essays, A Cloud of Unusual Size and Shape: Meditations on Ruin and Redemption (Trinity University Press, 2016). His work appeared in AGNI,[2] Blackbird,[3] Poetry,[4] The Kenyon Review,[5] The Gettysburg Review,[6] The Threepenny Review,[7] and The Virginia Quarterly Review,[8] among others literary journals.

He is the recipient of a Rome Prize in Literature, a Whiting Award [9] a Pushcart Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, a Lannan Writing Residency Fellowship, the Larry Levis Reading Prize from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Creative Capital award.[10][11]

He is currently collaborating on the chamber opera "Inheritance" with artist Ligia Bouton, soprano Susan Narucki, and composer Lei Liang.

Works

Books

  • Vellum. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2007. ISBN 978-0-618-82212-6.
  • A Cloud of Unusual Size and Shape: Meditations on Ruin and Redemption. Trinity University Press. 2016.
  • Ten Burnt Lakes. Tupelo Press. Forthcoming 2017.

Essays

  • "Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii". The Threepenny Review. 131. Fall 2012.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.santafeuniversity.edu/ProgramsOfStudy/CreativeWriting/Faculty.aspx
  2. ↑ http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/M/Matt-Donovan.html
  3. ↑ http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v7n2/poetry/donovan_m/index.htm
  4. ↑ http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/toc/1072
  5. ↑ http://www.kenyonreview.org/issues/summer11/index.php%5Bpermanent+dead+link%5D
  6. ↑ http://www.gettysburgreview.com/selections/past_selections/index.dot?inode=2586521&pageTitle=%E2%80%9CNight%20Train%E2%80%9D:%20A%20Listener%E2%80%99s%20Guide&crumbTitle=%E2%80%9CNight%20Train%E2%80%9D:%20A%20Listener%E2%80%99s%20Guide&author=Matt%20Donovan&story=true
  7. ↑ http://www.threepennyreview.com/tocs/75_f98.html
  8. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-04-06. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
  9. ↑ http://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/matt-donovan
  10. ↑ http://www.news.vcu.edu/news/Matthew_Donovans_Vellum_selected_for_VCUs_Levis_Reading_Prize
  11. ↑ "Creative Capital - Investing in Artists who Shape the Future". creative-capital.org. Retrieved 2016-11-07.
  • www.mattdonovanwriting.com).
  • Profile at The Whiting Foundation
  • James Longenbach (July 22, 2007). "Writing in the Margins". The New York Times.
  • http://coldfrontmag.com/tag/matt-donovan
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