Airea D. Matthews
Airea Dee Matthews is an American poet. She is the Provost and Professor of Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College. She was named the 2022–23 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia.
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- Name
- Airea D.
- Education
- University of Pennsylvania; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Born
- 1972
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- poet · writer
- Honours
- Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition · Pew Fellowship in the Arts · Cave Canem fellow · Poet Laureate of Philadelphia · Guggenheim Fellowship
- Languages
- English
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Airea Dee Matthews is an American poet. She is the Provost and Professor of Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College. She was named the 2022–23 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia.
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Biography
Biography
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.
Philadelphia poet Airea D. Matthews reads from her works at Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, on September 24, 2019.
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Writers Airea D. Matthews, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Keetje Kuipers and Julia Bloch at Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania for the reading "What Other Women Don't Tell
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Key facts
• Name — Airea D. Matthews • Education — University of Pennsylvania; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor • Genre — Poetry
Education and early life
Education and early life
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.
Career and writing
Career and writing
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.
Works
Works
• Simulacra, Yale University Press, March 2017., • Bread and circus, Scribner, 2023.,
Awards and honors
In January 2022, Matthews was chosen as the sixth Poet Laureate of Philadelphia for the 2022–2023 term. Matthews was awarded a fellowship from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage in 2020. In 2016, she won the Yale Series of Younger Poets award, the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and the Louis Untermeyer Scholarship in Poetry from the 2016 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. In 2017, she was a James Merrill House fellow. In 2024 she received a PEN Oakland – Josephine Miles Award for Bread and Circus.
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