Matthew Dickman

Adjunct Fellow at the Attic Institute

Matthew Dickman is the author of All-American Poem (APR/ Copper Canyon Press, 2008). He is the recipient of The Honickman First Book Prize, The May Sarton Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Kate Tufts Award from Claremont College, the 2009 Oregon Book Award and two Fellowships from Literary Arts of Oregon. He has also received residencies and fellowships from The Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas, The Vermont Studio Center, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and The Lannan Foundation.

Matthew has been profiled in The Oregonian, Poets & Writers Magazine, The Seattle Post Intelligencer, and The New Yorker. Born and raised in the Lents District of Portland he has been a guest lecturer and teacher at institutions including Reed College, Writers in The Schools, Portland State University, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Hamline University, and Smith College.

His poems have appeared in Tin House Magazine, McSweeny’s, Ploughshares, and The New Yorker, among many others. W.W. Norton & Co. will publish his second book in 2012.