Sebastian Matthews (born August 25, 1965) is an American poet and writer.

Life[edit]

He graduated from the University of Michigan with an MFA.

His books include In My Father's Footsteps (memoir), We Generous (poetry), Miracle Day (poetry) and Beginner's Guide to a Head-on Collision (hybrid).

His father is William Matthews. His mother is Marie Harris.

He lives with his wife in Asheville, North Carolina.^[1]

Awards[edit]

• Bernard De Voto Fellow in Nonfiction
• Vermont Studio Center residency.^[2]

Works[edit]

• "Messages in a Bottle: Notes from an Unlikely Curator," an essay about curating an exhibition of collage artist Ray Johnson's work at Black Mountain College + Arts Museum, in Blackbird Fall 2010, v9n2
• "Barbershop Quartet, East Village Grille", American Life in Poetry^[3]
• "Song for My Father", Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2004
• "Buying Wine", Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2004
• "GHOST BOXES", La Petite Zine
• We Generous. Red Hen Press. 2007. ISBN 978-1-59709-087-2.
• Coming to Flood. Hollyridge Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-9772298-0-2. (the Hollyridge Press Chapbook Series)

Memoir[edit]

• In My Father's Footsteps. W. W. Norton & Company. 2003. ISBN 978-0-393-05738-6. Sebastian Matthews.

Editor[edit]

• Sebastian Matthews; Stanley Plumly, eds. (2004). Search Party: Collected Poems of William Matthews. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-618-35007-0.

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Sebastian Matthews, contributor index on Blackbird Fall 2010, v9n2
• Sebastian Matthews's "Messages in a Bottle: Notes from an Unlikely Curator," essay about curating an exhibition of collage artist Ray Johnson's work at Black Mountain College + Arts Museum in Blackbird Fall 2010, v9n2
• "Sebastian Matthews reads “I Am” by John Clare", Poets on Poets
• "Sebastian Matthews", Fishouse
• "Poet explains his own creative process", Herald-Journal, Jeremy Jones, August 17, 2008
• "We Generous: Sebastian Matthews Chronicles His Own Flight", Natures,April 06, 2007