Matthew Olzmann

Matthew Olzmann was born in Detroit. He received a BA from the University of Michigan–Dearborn and an MFA from Warren Wilson College. 

Olzmann is the author of three poetry collections: Constellation Route (Alice James Books, 2022); Contradictions in the Design (Alice James Books, 2016); and Mezzanines (Alice James Books, 2013), winner of the 2011 Kundiman Poetry Prize.

Olzmann has received fellowships from the Kresge Arts Foundation, Kundiman, MacDowell, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches creative writing at Dartmouth College and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. He lives in Vermont.