Matthew Wimberley is the author of All the Great Territories (Southern Illinois University Press, 2020), winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. His poems have appeared in Best New Poets, Orion, Poet Lore, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. Wimberley holds an MFA in poetry from NYU and teaches at Lees-McCrae College in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.  

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