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]

Life and career

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 his wife, artist Ligia Bouton, as well as the soprano Susan Narucki, and composer Lei Liang. ^[12]

Works

Books

• Vellum. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2007. ISBN  978-0-618-82212-6. Matt Donovan (poet).
• 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

External links

• 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