Matt MacFarland is from central Virginia. He has been a finalist for prizes from Four Way Books, Terrain.org, New Issues Press and Nimrod International Journal.
He is a graduate of Hampden-Sydney College, a small liberal arts school, where he studied English and Classics and developed an obsession with the Orpheus myth.
After graduating, Matt lived near and in Los Angeles, where he worked as a business research editor and analyst. For a while there he wrote album reviews and features for Prefix, an online music magazine.
In 2013, he moved back east to attend the MFA program at the University of Virginia. He taught introduction to poetry classes and was an editorial assistant on the staff of VQR. His first manuscript, Singing Saw, was his thesis. He graduated in May 2015.
He lives in Charlottesville, VA, with his wife, the poet Sarah Crossland.
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