ABOUT
Poet, educator, editor and ecocritic, Matthew Cooperman is the author of, most recently, the atmosphere is not a perfume it is odorless (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2024) and Wonder About The, winner of the Halcyon Prize (Middle Creek, 2023) as well as NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified), w/Aby Kaupang, (Futurepoem, 2018), Spool, winner of the New Measure Prize (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2016), the text + image collaboration Imago for the Fallen World, w/Marius Lehene (Jaded Ibis Press, 2013), Still: of the Earth as the Ark which Does Not Move (Counterpath Press, 2011), DaZE (Salt Publishing Ltd, 2006) and A Sacrificial Zinc (Pleiades/LSU, 2001), winner of the Lena Miles Wever-Todd Prize. His ninth book, Time, & Its Monument, is forthcoming from Station Hill Press.
Numerous chapbooks exist in addition, including A Little History of the Panorama (Ursus Americanus, 2019), and Disorder 299.00 (Essay Press, w/Aby Kaupang, 2015). Recent poems have appeared in such journals as New American Writing, Lana Turner, Michigan Quarterly Review, Boston Review, Posit, Conduit, Pleiades, VOLT, Kenyon Review, Denver Quarterly, Seattle Review, Prelude and LIT.
A 2025 Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry, Cooperman’s been nominated for five Pushcart Prizes. He is the recipient of the Jovanovich Prize from the University of Colorado, an INTRO Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Utah Wilderness Society Prize, and the O. Marvin Lewis Award from Weber Studies. A founding editor of Quarter After Eight, and former Fine Arts Work Center Fellow, he is a Poetry Editor for Colorado Review. A founding editor of the exploratory prose journal Quarter After Eight, and former Fine Arts Work Center Fellow, where he edited Shankpainter,he is a Poetry Editor for Colorado Review.
Cooperman holds a B.A. in English from Colgate University, an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a Ph.D in English from Ohio University. Cooperman has taught at Cornell College in Iowa; the University of Colorado in Boulder; Ohio University and Harvard University. He currently teaches creative writing, ecopoetics, and the liiterature of the West at Colorado State University, and lives in Fort Collins with his wife, the poet Aby Kaupang, and their children.
