Poet, critic, editor, educator, Matthew Cooperman’s work explores the inter-disciplinary boundaries of poetry, ethnography, ecopoetics and visual arts. He is the author of, most recently, Wonder About The (Middle Creek Publishing, 2023), winner of the Halcyon Prize. Other works include NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified), w/Aby Kaupang, (Futurepoem, 2018), Spool, winner of the New Measure Prize (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2016), the text + image collaboration Imago for the Fallen World, w/Marius Lehene (Jaded Ibis Press, 2013), Still: of the Earth as the Ark which Does Not Move (Counterpath Press, 2011), DaZE (Salt Publishing Ltd, 2006) and A Sacrificial Zinc (Pleiades/LSU, 2001), winner of the Lena Miles Wever-Todd Prize. A founding editor of Quarter After Eight, he is also co-poetry editor for Colorado Review. Matthew Cooperman is a Professor of English at Colorado State University, and lives in Fort Collins with his wife, the poet Aby Kaupang, and their children.

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