Matthew Olzmann

Matthew Olzmann is a poet, author, and essayist.

Personal life Matthew Olzmann was born in Detroit, Michigan. He currently teaches at Dartmouth College, and the MFA program at Warren Wilson College. Olzmann is married to poet Vievee Francis.

Career Olzmann received his BA from the University of Michigan-Dearborn and his MFA from Warren Wilson College.

He has had poems, stories, and essays appear in various publications, such as Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Salt Hill, Margie, Atlanta Review, Necessary Fiction, Brevity, Southern Review, and elsewhere.

Olzmann is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of English & Creative Writing at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire USA.

Awards and fellowships

Kresge Arts Foundation Literary Arts Fellow (2010) Bread Loaf Writer's Conference Robert Frost Fellow in Poetry (2016) Kundiman Fellowship Kundiman Prize (2011) Kenyon Review Writer's Workshop The MacDowell Colony Poetry Fellowship (2018) National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship (2021)

Works

Mezzanines (2013), Alice James Books Contradictions in the Design (2016), Alice James Books Constellation Route (2022), Alice James Books