poet. teaching artist. educator.

Matty Layne Glasgow is the author of the collection deciduous qween (Red Hen Press, 2019), selected by Richard Blanco as the winner of the 2017 Benjamin Saltman Award. He is the Visiting Poet at Westminster University, a 2022-2025 Black Earth Institute Fellow, a Graduate Research Fellow in the Tanner Humanities Center, and a PhD Candidate in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Utah. He has coordinated the Wasatch Writers in the Schools Program and he has served as Editor of Quarterly West. Matty’s poems and essays have recently appeared in or are forthcoming from Crazyhorse, Copper Nickel, Denver Quarterly, Ecotone, Gulf Coast, Houston Public Media, the Missouri Review, Pleiades, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere.

deciduous qween

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