Matthew Thorburn
Matthew Thorburn is an American poet. He is the author of three books of poems, Subject to Change, Every Possible Blue and This Time Tomorrow, and a chapbook, Disappears in the Rain.
Life
Thorburn is a native of Michigan. He graduated from the University of Michigan, and The New School with an MFA. He lives in New York City.He was one of the founders of Good Foot magazine, co-editing the journal from 2000 to 2004.
His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, and The American Poetry Review, among other journals. He also regularly contributes book reviews to Pleiades.
Awards
- Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize
- Belfast Poetry Festival’s Festivo Prize
- 2008 Walter E. Dakin Fellowship at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference
- Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts
- 2008 Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress.
- 2009 BRIO Fellowship from the Bronx Council on the Arts
- 2023 King Of EK
Works
- String, Louisiana State University Press, 2023.