Matthew Hollis

Matthew Hollis (born 1971) is an English author, editor, professor, and poet, currently living in London, England. He has studied at the universities of Edinburgh and York. He presently lives in London, England, writing as well as serving as a tutor for the London Poetry School. He joined Faber and Faber in 2002, helping devise the Faber New Poets series. He became the publisher's poetry editor in 2012 and retired from the role in 2023. He is a member of the international educational and cultural enhancement organisation the British Council, taking part in the Arts Council's "First Lines" programme in 2001. The Independent, The Wall Street Journal, and others) biography of seminal English poet Edward Thomas. The work won the 2011 H. W. Fisher Best First Biography Prize, as well as the 2011 Costa Book Award for "Best Biography". The judges for the latter commented: "Dramatic and engrossing. A brilliant biography that moved us all."

Hollis's most recent work is Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem, published on 13 October 2022 by Faber and Faber, which was made book of the year by the Sunday Times, the New Statesman and the Financial Times.