Matthew Gellman
Matthew Gellman’s first book, Beforelight, was selected by Tina Chang as the winner of the 2023 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and is forthcoming from BOA Editions, Ltd. A 2023–2024 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Matthew has also received awards and honors from Brooklyn Poets, The Adroit Journal’s Djanikian Scholars Program, the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Summer Writer’s Institute and the Academy of American Poets. His poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Narrative, The Common, North American Review, Indiana Review, Waxwing, Lambda Literary’s Poetry Spotlight and other publications. He holds an MFA from Columbia University and currently lives in New York.
