Matthew Nienow

Matthew Nienow is the author of three chapbooks: The End of the Folded Map (Codhill Press, 2011), The Smallest Working Pieces (Toadlily Press, 2009) and Two Sides of the Same Thing (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2007). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, New England Review, Poetry, and Southwest Review, as well as in the anthologies, Best New Poets 2007 and A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry (University of Akron Press, 2012).  

He has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Foundation, and Seattle's leading arts organization, 4Culture.  He lives in Port Townsend, WA where he works as a boatbuilder.