Matthew Thorburn's latest book is String, a novel in poems, published by Louisiana State University Press in 2023.

His new book of poems, A Hundred Birds, is forthcoming from LSU Press in Spring 2027.

He’s also the author of five previous books, including The Grace of Distance, a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize, and the book-length poem Dear Almost, honored with the Lascaux Prize, and two chapbooks. ​His work has been recognized with a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, the Guy Owen Prize from Southern Poetry Review, the Mississippi Review Prize, and fellowships from the Bronx and New Jersey arts councils and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. 

A native of Michigan and for many years a New Yorker, he lives and works in central New Jersey.

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