Matthew Olzmann

Matthew Olzmann was born in Detroit, Michigan. He currently teaches at Dartmouth College, and the MFA program at Warren Wilson College.[1]

Olzmann received his BA from the University of Michigan-Dearborn and his MFA from Warren Wilson College.[2]

He has had poems, stories, and essays appear in various publications, such as Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Salt Hill, Margie, Atlanta Review, Necessary Fiction, Brevity, Southern Review, and elsewhere.[1]

Olzmann is the author of two poetry publications. His debut collection, Mezzanines, was published by Alice James Books in 2013, which won the Kundiman Prize. In November 2016, Olzmann published his second collection, Contradictions in the Design, also from Alice James Books. In 2012, Olzmann edited Another & Another: An Anthology from the Grind Daily Writing Series along with Ross White.[2]

• Kresge Arts Foundation Literary Arts Fellow (2010)[3]
• Bread Loaf Writer's Conference Robert Frost Fellow in Poetry (2016)
• Kundiman Fellow
• Kundiman Prize (2011)[4]
• Kenyon Review Writer's Workshop
• The MacDowell Colony Poetry Fellowship (2018)[5]

• Mezzanines (2013), Alice James Books
• Contradictions in the Design (2016), Alice James Books