Biography
Matthew Cooperman is a poet and scholar active in ecocriticism. He is the author of the poetry collections DaZE (Salt Publishing, 2006) and A Sacrificial Zinc (Pleiades/LSU, 2001), winner of the Lean-Miles Wever Todd Prize, as well as three chapbooks, Still: (to be) Perpetual (Dove/Tail Poetry, 2007), Words About James (Phylum Press, 2005) and Surge (Kent State, 1998). Recent poetry and criticism has appeared or is forthcoming in Jacket, New American Writing, Pleiades, Electronic Poetry Review, Pool, Cannibal, Free Verse, Denver Quarterly and Gutcult, among others. A founding editor of the exploratory prose journal Quarter After Eight, he is a current poetry editor at Colorado Review. He teaches Creative Writing and English literature at Colorado State University and can be reached at coopermanz@yahoo.com. More information at: www.matthewcooperman.com