Matt Donovan is the author of Vellum (Houghton Mifflin, 2007) which won the 2006 Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize in poetry and the 2008 Levis Reading Prize. His poems and essays have appeared in The Kenyon Review, AGNI, Threepenny Review, Seneca Review, and VQR, among others. He has received a Rome Prize (2011–2012), a Whiting Award in Poetry (2010), a Pushcart Prize (2008), and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (2005). Donovan co-chairs the Department of Creative Writing and Literature at Santa Fe University of Art and Design.  

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