Sebastian Matthews

Sebastian Matthews (born August 25, 1965) is an American poet, and writer.

He graduated from the University of Michigan with an MFA.

His books include In My Father's Footsteps (memoir), We Generous (poetry), Miracle Day (poetry) and Beginner's Guide to a Head-on Collision (hybrid).

His father is William Matthews. His mother is Marie Harris.

He lives with his wife in Asheville, North Carolina.

• Bernard De Voto Fellow in Nonfiction
• Vermont Studio Center residency.

• "Messages in a Bottle: Notes from an Unlikely Curator," an essay about curating an exhibition of collage artist Ray Johnson's work at Black Mountain College + Arts Museum, in Blackbird Fall 2010, v9n2
• "Barbershop Quartet, East Village Grille", American Life in Poetry
• "Song for My Father", Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2004
• "Buying Wine", Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2004
• "GHOST BOXES", La Petite Zine
• We Generous. Red Hen Press. 2007. ISBN 978-1-59709-087-2.
• Coming to Flood. Hollyridge Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-9772298-0-2. (the Hollyridge Press Chapbook Series)

Memoir

• In My Father’s Footsteps. W. W. Norton & Company. 2003. ISBN 978-0-393-05738-6. Sebastian Matthews.

Editor

• Sebastian Matthews, Stanley Plumly, eds. (2004). Search Party: Collected Poems of William Matthews. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-618-35007-0.CS1 maint: uses editors parameter (link)