Matty Layne Glasgow
poet. educator. teaching artist.
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 is runner-up for Missouri Review’s 2017 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize and finalist for Nimrod’s 2018 Pablo Neruda Prize. Tyehimba Jess also awarded Matty's poem "deciduous qween, IV" 3rd place in Frontier Poetry's New Poets Award. His poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. 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..
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.