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.