Matt Kelsey

Originally from Glens Falls, New York, Matt Kelsey is a poet 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, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Idyllwild Arts. 

 

Matt teaches for the Kenyon Review Young Writers Program and Hive Center for the Book Arts. In addition to being an educator, Matt is a long-time editor. He currently reads submissions for The Sun Magazine, and has worked for 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.