Matthew Thorburn's new book, The Grace of Distance, is forthcoming from Louisiana State University Press in 2019.

He is also the author of six previous collections, including the book-length poem Dear Almost (LSU Press, 2016), honored with the Lascaux Prize for Collected Poetry; the chapbook A Green River in Spring (Autumn House Press, 2015), winner of the Coal Hill Review chapbook competition;This Time Tomorrow (Waywiser Press, 2013), a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize; Every Possible Blue (CW Books, 2012); Subject to Change (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2004), winner of the New Issues Poetry Prize; and an earlier chapbook, the long poem Disappears in the Rain (Parlor City Press, 2009)

His work has been recognized with a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, as well as fellowships from the Bronx Council on the Arts and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. His interviews with writers, first published on this site as the What Are You Reading? series, appeared for several years on the Ploughshares blog. He lives in New Jersey.