Airea D. Matthews

Matthews studied at University of Michigan and University of Pennsylvania. The recorded working language is English. Employment is recorded with University of Michigan and Bryn Mawr College. Distinctions recorded are Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition, Pew Fellowship in the Arts, Cave Canem fellow and Poet Laureate of Philadelphia.

• Name — Airea D. Matthews • Education — University of Pennsylvania; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor • Genre — Poetry

Matthews received her B.A. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. She holds an M.F.A. in poetry from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program and an M.P.A. in Social Policy from Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, both at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Apart from her professorship at Bryn Mawr, Matthews was a visiting professor and scholar at the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University. There she helped to develop the Poets and Scholars Summer Writing Retreat and the “Race, In Theory” Fellows Humanities Seminar. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry 2015, American Poet, Four Way Review, The Missouri Review, Muzzle, The Baffler, Callaloo, Indiana Review, WSQ, SLAB, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Vida: Her Kind.

• Simulacra, Yale University Press, March 2017., • Bread and circus, Scribner, 2023.,