Matt Kelsey

Originally from Glens Falls, New York, Matt Kelsey is a poet and educator living in Chicago. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. He has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a teaching fellowship from the Kenyon Review Young Writers Program, and an Idyllwild Arts Writers Week Fellowship.

 

Matt currently teaches classes at the Hive Center for the Book Arts and the Kenyon Review Young Writers Program. In addition to being an educator, Matt is a long-time editor, and has worked for literary magazines such as Poetry Northwest, Rhino, Pleiades, and Narrative. He has also served as an editorial assistant to the UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures.

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Matt lives with his wife--poet and editor Lindsay Garbutt--and their daughter Thea.