Airea D. Matthews is an American poet. She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing and the co-director of the Creative Writing Program at Bryn Mawr College.[1] She was named the 2022–23 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia.[2]
Airea D. Matthews | |
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 Matthews at the 2023 Texas Book Festival | |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| Genre | Poetry |
Education and early life
editMatthews received her B.A. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. She holds an M.F.A. in poetry from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program and an M.P.A. in Social Policy from Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, both at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.[1][2]
Career and writing
editApart from her professorship at Bryn Mawr, Matthews is a visiting professor and scholar at the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University. There she helped to develop the Poets and Scholars Summer Writing Retreat and the “Race, In Theory” Fellows Humanities Seminar.[3]
Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry 2015, American Poet, Four Way Review,[4] The Missouri Review,[5] Muzzle,[6] The Baffler,[7] Callaloo, Indiana Review, WSQ,[8] SLAB, Michigan Quarterly Review,[9] and Vida: Her Kind.[10]
Works
edit- Simulacra, Yale University Press, March 2017. ISBN 9780300227932, OCLC 999894143
- Bread and circus, Scribner, 2023. ISBN 9781668011454, OCLC 1347427680
Awards and honors
editIn January 2022, Matthews was chosen as the sixth Poet Laureate of Philadelphia for the 2022–2023 term.[2]
Matthews was awarded a fellowship from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage in 2020.[11]
In 2016, she won the Yale Younger Poet award, the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and the Louis Untermeyer Scholarship in Poetry from the 2016 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.[1][10]. In 2017, she was a James Merrill House fellow.
In 2024 she received a PEN Oakland – Josephine Miles Award for Bread and Circus.
References
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- ^ a b c "Dee Matthews". Bryn Mawr College Department of Literatures in English. 2020. Retrieved April 11, 2021.
- ^ a b c "Blog: Philly, Meet Your New Poet Laureate". Free Library of Philadelphia. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
- ^ "Airea D. Matthews Named Philadelphia Poet Laureate". Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, Rutgers University. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
- ^ "TWO POEMS by Airea D. Matthews". Four Way Review. 29 March 2015. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
- ^ "Airea D. Matthews: "Swindle"". TMR Content Archives. September 23, 2013. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
- ^ Matthews, Airea D. "Hero(i)n". Muzzle Magazine. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
- ^ Matthews, Airea D. (2014). "Narcissus Tweets". The Baffler. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
- ^ Matthews, Airea D. (January 1, 2014). "March 1969". WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly. 42 (1): 311–312. doi:10.1353/wsq.2014.0012. ISSN 1934-1520. S2CID 201786134.
- ^ Matthews, Airea D. (October 24, 2014). "Fanon and The Case of the Diasporic Haints". Michigan Quarterly Review. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
- ^ a b "Airea Matthews is named the Yale Younger Poet for her 'rollicking, destabilizing' debut collection". Yale News. March 1, 2016. Retrieved April 17, 2016.
- ^ "Full List of Pew Fellows". The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. 2016-12-06. Archived from the original on 2021-04-24. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
External links
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- "Airea, once."
- Episode 43: Airea D. Matthews, Commonplace,
- "Airea D. Matthews, 2015 Literary Arts Fellow", Kresge Arts in Detroit
- "Airea Dee's Open Road", Roadtrip Nation
- "Airea D Matthews" at Kore Press