Author: Matthew Hittinger
Born: June 1 1978
Bio: Matthew Hittinger is an American poet and writer currently based in New York City.  His titles include *The Masque of Marilyn* (GOSS183, 2017), *The Erotic Postulate* (2014) and *Skin Shift* (2012) both from Sibling Rivalry Press, and the chapbooks *Platos de Sal* (Seven Kitchens Press, 2009), *Narcissus Resists* (GOSS183, 2009), and *Pear Slip* (Spire Press, 2007) winner of the Spire 2006 Chapbook Award.

Born and raised in Bethlehem, PA, Matthew did his undergraduate work in Art History and English at Muhlenberg College and received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writers' Program where he won a Hopwood Award for Poetry and The Helen S. and John Wagner Prize. Matthew was named a 2012 Debut Poet on the 8th annual list by *Poets & Writers Magazine*.

His work has been adapted into art songs, has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, and has been anthologized in *Best New Poets 2005*; *Villanelles*; *Divining Divas: 100 Gay Poets on the Women Who Inspire Them*; *A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poems*; *The Rumpus Original Poetry Anthology*; *Love Rise Up: Poems of Social Justice, Protest and Hope*; *Drawn to Marvel: Poems from the Comic Books*; *Out of Sequence: The Sonnets Remixed*; *The Queer South: LGBT Writers on the American South*; and *Rabbit Ears: TV Poems*.