Mathew Weitman

Discipline: Poetry

Based In: Houston, TX

Year at Millay: 2024

Awards/Honors: Fellow, MacDowell, Peterborough, NH (2025); Artist-in-Residence, Literature, Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY (2025); Award Winner, English, Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, University of Houston, Houston, TX (2025); Fellow, Inprint Brown Foundation Fellowship, University of Houston, Houston, TX (2025); Prize Winner, Inprint Paul Verlaine Prize in Poetry, Inprint, Houston, TX (2024); Prize Winner, Poetry, AWP Kurt Brown Prize, The Association of Writers & Writing Programs, Riverdale Park, MD (2023); Artist-in-Residence, Bloedel Reserve, Bainbridge Island, WA (2022); Prize Winner, The Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, "The Georgia Review," University of Georgia, Athens, GA (2021).

Website: http://mathewweitman.com

Mathew Weitman’s poetry appears in Bennington Review, Copper Nickel, The Georgia Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. He is the winner of the Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, the AWP Kurt Brown Prize, and the Inprint Verlaine Prize in Poetry. He has also received residencies and fellowships from MacDowell, Ucross, and the Bloedel Reserve. Currently, he is pursuing his PhD in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Houston, where he is an Inprint Brown Foundation Fellow, and a poetry editor for Gulf Coast.