Matty Layne Glasgow
poet. educator. editor.
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 a Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor at the College of William and Mary where he teaches poetry and creative writing. A 2022-2025 Black Earth Institute Fellow, he is co-editor of About Place Journal’s “Strange Wests” issue and an assistant editor for the current issue on “Careful/Care-full Collaboration.” He also served as Editor of Quarterly West and coordinated the Wasatch Writers in the Schools program in Salt Lake City. While completing his PhD in Creative Writing & English Literature at the University of Utah, Matty was the recipient of a Vice Presidential Fellowship, a Jeff Metcalf Humanities in the Community Fellowship, and a Graduate Research Fellow at the Tanner Humanities Center, where he also worked as a Program Coordinator. Matty’s poems and essays have recently appeared in or are forthcoming from Crazyhorse, Copper Nickel, Denver Quarterly, Ecotone, Gulf Coast, Houston Public Media, Kenyon Review, the Missouri Review, Pleiades, Poetry Daily, Third Coast, and elsewhere.
Matty’s passion lies in bringing creative writing into community settings. He’s worked with WITS Houston since 2013, leading workshops in public schools, museums, and local parks. Recently, he’s also partnered with the University of Utah Prison Education Project to co-facilitate a semester-long poetry course in the Draper facilities, and he’s also worked with the National Alliance of Mental Illness to provide therapeutic writing workshops. While completing his MFA in Creative Writing & Environment at Iowa State University, Matty served as Poetry Editor for Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment, co-facilitated the Teen Writers Workshop at the Ames Public Library and the Ames High School Creative Writing Club, and led a weekly therapeutic writing workshop for the National Alliance of Mental Illness of Central Iowa.