Matthew Yeager’s poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, and elsewhere, as well as numerous anthologies, including Best American Poetry 2005, 2010, and 2024, The Strategic Poet, and Twenty Years of PoemoftheWeek.com.  “A Big Ball of Foil in a Small NY Apartment,” his micro-budget short film, was an official selection at eleven film festivals in 2009-2010, picking up three awards.  His “Poem to First Love” has appeared in online features in Oprah Magazine, Good Housekeeping, Newsweek, Brides, et. al., and has been translated into several languages, including Urdu and Chinese.  Other distinctions include the Barthelme Prize in short prose and multiple fellowships to both MacDowell and Yaddo.  The co-curator of the KGB Monday Night Poetry Series from 2011 to 2021, Yeager worked in the NYC catering industry for fourteen years in various capacities: truck driver, waiter, sanitation helper, sanitation captain, bartender, bar captain, lead captain, producer.  His first book, Like That (Forklift Books, 2016) received a starred review from Publishers Weekly.  His second  book is Rocket Surgery (NYQ Books, 2026).  He teaches and lives in Cincinnati with his wife Chelsea Whitton and their twin sons Hank and Pete.

Contact: yeager.matthew@gmail.com