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Matthew Zapruder

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About

Matthew Zapruder is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently I Love Hearing Your Dreams, forthcoming from Scribner in September 2024, as well as two books of prose: Why Poetry (Ecco, 2017) and Story of a Poem (Unnamed, 2023). He is editor at large at Wave Books, where he edits contemporary poetry, prose, and translations. From 2016-7 he held the annually rotating position of Editor of the Poetry Column for the New York Times Magazine, and was the Editor of Best American Poetry 2022. He teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College of California.

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Education/Academic qualification

M.F.A. in Poetry, University of Massachusetts Amherst

… → 1999

M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California - Berkeley

… → 1994

B.A. in Russian Literature, Amherst College

… → 1989

External positions

Editor, Poetry Page, New York Times Magazine

Mar 1 2016 → Mar 1 2017

Palm Desert Low Residency MFA, Assistant Adjunct Professor, University of California, Riverside

Aug 1 2008 → …

Permanent Graduate Faculty, MFA in Creative Writing, The New School

Jan 1 2005 → Jan 1 2009

Editor-at-Large, Wave Books

Jan 1 2005 → …

Co-curator, KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading Series

Jan 1 2004 → Jan 1 2008

Founder and Publisher, Verse Press

Jan 1 1999 → Jan 1 2005

Visiting Professor, MFA Creative Writing, New York University

… → Mar 1 2008

Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry, University of California - Berkeley

… → Aug 1 2010

Visiting Professor, MFA, University of Houston

… → Sep 1 2018

Disciplines

  • English Language and Literature
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