Suzanne Matson

Suzanne Marie Matson (born 1959) is an American fiction writer, poet and professor at Boston College.

Education and career Matson has a B.A. from Portland State University, and an M.A. (1983) and Ph.D. (1987) from the University of Washington. As of 2022, she is a professor at Boston College.

Work Matson is known for writing short fiction, novels and poetry. Her novels include The Hunger Moon, A Trick of Nature, The Tree-Sitter, and Ultraviolet. Her books of poetry have been reviewed by the Harvard Book Review.

Selected publications

Honors and awards In 2012 Matson received a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship.