Matthew Minicucci’s most recent collection, Small Gods (New Issues, 2017), won the Stafford/Hall Oregon Book Award in Poetry. His poetry and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming from numerous journals including APR, The Believer, POETRY, and The Southern Review. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards including the Stanley P. Young Fellowship in Poetry from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, a Writer-in-Residence fellowship from the James Merrill House, and the Dartmouth Poet-in-Residence fellowship from Dartmouth College and the Frost House.