Farid Matuk

Farid Matuk is the author of the poetry collections This Isa Nice Neighborhood (Letter Machine Editions, 2010) and The Real Horse (University of Arizona Press, 2018). With visual artist Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez, Matuk created the book arts project Redolent, which won the 2023 Anna Rabinowitz Prize from the Poetry Society of America. Matuk also translated Tilsa Otta’s selected poems in The Hormone of Darkness (Graywolf Press, 2024). His poems have been published in The Paris Review, The Nation, The Brooklyn Rail, BOMBMagazine, Lana Turner, and Poetry magazine, among others, and have been anthologized in Best American Experimental Writing 2014, Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora, and the Library of America’s Latino Poetry. Matuk has received support from residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a visiting Holloway Lectureship in the Practice of Poetry at the University of California, Berkeley, and a 2024 USA Fellowship from United States Artists.