Matthew Gellman a 2022-2023 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and has also received a Brooklyn Poets fellowship, The Adroit Journal’s Gregory Djanikian Scholarship, an Academy of American Poets prize and other honors.
His poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Narrative, The Common, Ninth Letter, Indiana Review, Lambda Literary’s Poetry Spotlight, the Missouri Review and elsewhere.
Matthew’s chapbook, “Night Logic,” was selected by Denise Duhamel as the winner of The 2021 Snowbound Chapbook Prize and is forthcoming from Tupelo Press. His full-length manuscript, “Beforelight,” has been a finalist for Four Way Books’ Larry Levis Prize, The Alice James Book Award, BOA Editions’ A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, and the Autumn House Poetry Prize.
He holds an MFA from Columbia University and currently lives in Brooklyn.