Matthew Minicucci

Matthew Minicucci is the author of the collections Translation (Kent State University Press, 2015), winner of the 2014 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize; Small Gods (New Issues Poetry and Prose, 2017), winner of the 2019 Stafford/Hall Oregon Book Award; and Dual (Acre Books, 2023). His poetry and essays have appeared in journals including The American Poetry Review, The Believer, TheCincinnati Review, The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, Poetry magazine, TheSouthern Review, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. He is the recipient of fellowships and awards including a Stanley P. Young Fellowship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, a Dartmouth Poet-in-Residence fellowship from Dartmouth College and the Frost House, a Writer-in-Residence fellowship at the John Day Fossil Beds from the National Parks Service, and a fellowship from the James Merrill House. 

Minicucci is the great-grandson of Napolitano immigrants and grew up in an Italian American household in Massachusetts. He earned a BA in classical languages and literatures from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an MFA in poetry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A longtime member of the board of advisors for Ninth Letter, he is currently an assistant professor in the Blount Scholars Program at the University of Alabama.