Matt Donovan (poet)

See also: Matt Donovan

Matt Donovan (born Ohio) is an American poet. He won a 2010 Whiting Writers' Award.^[1]

Life

He graduated from Vassar College with a BA, from Lancaster University with an MA, and from New York University with an MFA. He teaches at Santa Fe University of Art and Design.^[2]

He won a Pushcart Prize, an National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the 2008 Larry Levis Reading Prize,^[3] the 2009 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize,^[4] a 2010 Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship.^[5] Vellum won the 2006 Bakeless Prize.

His work appeared in AGNI,^[6] Blackbird,^[7] Poetry,^[8] The Kenyon Review,^[9] The Gettysburg Review,^[10] The Threepenny Review,^[11] and The Virginia Quarterly Review.^[12]

Works

• Vellum. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2007. ISBN 9780618822126. http://books.google.com/books?id=H_y8VCsGlEYC&pg=PP2&lpg=PP2&dq=Matt+Donovan+(poet)&source=bl&ots=rKBaInhyxN&sig=KpOjaZFY9FYO9OotEOc5J6zpQpg&hl=en&ei=-_SBTqMpoeXRAfD37YgB&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&sqi=2&ved=0CGMQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=Matt%20Donovan%20(poet)&f=false. 

References

1. ^ http://www.whitingfoundation.org/whiting_2010_bios.html
2. ^ http://www.santafeuniversity.edu/ProgramsOfStudy/CreativeWriting/Faculty.aspx
3. ^ http://www.news.vcu.edu/news/Matthew_Donovans_Vellum_selected_for_VCUs_Levis_Reading_Prize
4. ^ http://waywiser-press.com/mattdonovan.html
5. ^ http://www.lannan.org/bios/matt-donovan/
6. ^ http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/M/Matt-Donovan.html
7. ^ http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v7n2/poetry/donovan_m/index.htm
8. ^ http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/toc/1072
9. ^ http://www.kenyonreview.org/issues/summer11/index.php
10. ^ http://www.gettysburgreview.com/selections/past_selections/index.dot?inode=2586521&pageTitle=%E2%80%9CNight%20Train%E2%80%9D:%20A%20Listener%E2%80%99s%20Guide&crumbTitle=%E2%80%9CNight%20Train%E2%80%9D:%20A%20Listener%E2%80%99s%20Guide&author=Matt%20Donovan&story=true
11. ^ http://www.threepennyreview.com/tocs/75_f98.html
12. ^ http://www.vqronline.org/author/5830/matt-donovan/

External links

• James Longenbach (July 22, 2007). "Writing in the Margins". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/books/review/Longenbach-t.html?pagewanted=all. 
• http://coldfrontmag.com/tag/matt-donovan

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