Matthew Nienow is the author of three chapbooks: The End of the Folded Map (Codhill Press, 2011), The Smallest Working Pieces (Toadlily Press, 2009) and Two Sides of the Same Thing (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2007). His work has appeared in such journals as AGNI online, Blackbird, Indiana Review, New England Review, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, Willow Springs, and in the anthologies, Best New Poets 2007, A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poems (University of Akron Press, 2012), and many others. 

He has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Foundation, the University of Washington, and Seattle’s leading arts organization,  4Culture. Matthew lives in Port Townsend, WA with his wife, Elie, and their son, River, where he works as a boat builder and all around handyman.