Matt Donovan (poet)

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

References
  1. "Creative Writing Department Faculty | Writing Professors | Santa Fe University of Art and Design". Archived from the original on 2011-09-03. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
  2. "AGNI Online: Author Matt Donovan". Archived from the original on 2011-09-26. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
  3. "Matt Donovan, Blackbird". blackbird.vcu.edu.
  4. "March 2003 | Poetry Magazine". Poetry Foundation. September 27, 2021.
  5. http://www.kenyonreview.org/issues/summer11/index.php%5B%5D
  6. "Gettysburg Review - Past Selections". Archived from the original on 2012-04-15. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
  7. "Threepenny: Issue 75, Fall 1998". www.threepennyreview.com.
  8. "VQR » Matt Donovan". Archived from the original on 2012-04-06. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
  9. "Matt Donovan". www.whiting.org.
  10. "Matthew Donovan's "Vellum" selected for VCU's Levis Reading Prize – VCU News Center". www.news.vcu.edu. Archived from the original on 11 June 2010. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  11. "Creative Capital - Investing in Artists who Shape the Future". creative-capital.org. Retrieved 2016-11-07.
  12. "'Inheritance': A haunting chamber opera debuts at UC San Diego's Experimental Theater in La Jolla". La Jolla Light. 2018-10-24. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
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