Matthew Wimberley is a Starworks Fellow and MFA candidate at New York University. A finalist for the 2012 Narrative 30 Below Contest, and semi finalist for the Slope Edition Chapbook Contest, his writing has appeared in Rattle, Puerto Del Sol, and Connotation Press, where his poems were introduced by Dorianne Laux. Wimberley grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains with his two dogs and spent March and April of 2012 driving across the country. A Localist poet, he currently resides in Brooklyn where he is completing his first book length manuscript All the Great Territories.

Other poems on the web by Matthew Wimberley:
"Elegy at Night"
"Frost Heave"

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