Bio

Matthew Hittinger is an American poet and writer.  His titles include Skin Shift (Sibling Rivalry Press, forthcoming 2012) and the chapbooks Platos de Sal (Seven Kitchens Press, 2009), Narcissus Resists (GOSS183/MiPOesias, 2009), and Pear Slip (Spire Press, 2007) winner of the Spire 2006 Chapbook Award.

Born and raised in Bethlehem, PA (not far from the grave of H.D.), Matthew did his undergraduate work in Art History and English at Muhlenberg College and received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan where he won a Hopwood Award for Poetry and The Helen S. and John Wagner Prize.  Matthew has received the Kay Deeter Award from the journal Fine Madness, two Sundress Best of the Net nominations, and nine Pushcart Prize nominations.

His work has appeared in numerous journals, including American Letters & Commentary, Assaracus, Barn Owl Review, a feature in Blue Fifth Review, Canteen, Center, Clementine, The Concher, Corduroy Mountain, DIAGRAM, DMQ Review, Dusie, Gertrude, Hobble Creek Review, Knockout, The L Magazine, Mantis, Mary, Memorious, Meridian, Michigan Quarterly Review, Midway Journal, a feature and cover boy for MiPOesias, No Tell Motel, OCHO, The Offending Adam, Phoebe, Poets & Artists (O&S), qarrtsiluni, Turntable & Blue Light and elsewhere. His work has also been anthologized in Best New Poets 2005 and will be appearing in the forthcoming anthologies Divining Divas, Villanelles, Love Rise Up, and A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poems.

In recent years Matthew has collaborated with a number of artists in other disciplines, including video artist Liz Stephens and composer Matt Sargent on the video project “the heart strobed superimposed”; painters Kristy Gordon and Judith Peck; composer Randall West on an art song cycle featuring the texts of “Skin Game” and “Not Berdache Not Gynandromorph Not Even Two Spirit”; and composer John Glover on a number of projects, including setting the text of “The Astronomer on Misnomers” to electronic music with flute accompaniment, and creating an art song out of “8:46 A.M., Five Years Later” for the Five Boroughs Music Festival’s Five Borough Songbook.

Matthew lives and works in New York City.