Matthew Cooperman

Matthew Cooperman is the author of full-length collection, Spool (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2016), winner of the New Measure Prize; Imago for the Fallen World (with Marius Lehene, Jaded Ibis Press, 2013); Still: of the Earth as the Ark which Does Not Move (Counterpath Press, 2011); DaZE (Salt Publishing Ltd, 2006); and A Sacrificial Zinc (Pleiades/LSU, 2001), winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize. He has also authored four chapbooks, including Little Spool, winner of the 2014 Pavement Saw Chapbook Prize. He has received a fellowship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. A founding editor of Quarter After Eight, and co-poetry editor of Colorado Review, Cooperman teaches at Colorado State University and lives in Fort Collins with his wife, the poet Aby Kaupang, and their two children.