Biography
Matthew Cooperman is a poet, educator, editor and ecocritic. He is the author of, most recently, 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, 2013), and other books. His eighth book, the atmosphere is not a perfume it is odorless, will appear in 2024 (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press). A Founding Editor of the exploratory prose journal Quarter After Eight, Cooperman received his PhD in English from Ohio University. He is Co-Poetry Editor for Colorado Review, and Professor of English at Colorado State University. He lives in Fort Collins with his wife, the poet Aby Kaupang, and their children. He can be reached at coopermanz@yahoo.com. More info at http://matthewcooperman.org
