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Matty Layne Glasgow

Assistant Professor

Matty Layne Glasgow is the author of deciduous qween (Red Hen Press, 2019), winner of the Benjamin Saltman Award. A Black Earth Institute Fellow, he co-edited “Strange Wests” with Jasmine Elizabeth Smith and served as an assistant editor for “Careful/Care-full Collaboration,” both issues in About Place Journal. During his tenure as Editor of Quarterly West, Matty curated the special issue “Queer Time & Space.” As part of his creative and academic praxis, he has facilitated public humanities and community-engaged learning programs partnering with state prisons, K-12 public schools, environmental refuges, and mental health facilities. Matty teaches creative writing courses in poetry, nonfiction, and immersive writing of place and culture. 

Education

Ph. D., Creative Writing & English Literature, University of Utah 
M.F.A., Creative Writing & Environment, Iowa State University 
B.A., French with minors in English & Journalism, University of Texas at Austin 

Research Interests 

  • Poetry 
  • Creative Nonfiction 
  • Environmental Writing 
  • Poetics and Narrative Theory 
  • Experimental Literary Forms 
  • Queer Theory and Ecologies 
  • Literary Editing and Publishing 

Recent Publications

Poetry:

“Antelope Island, or twenty ewes, four rams, two lambs” and “Movement 3: feather in the lung” forthcoming in Microbialite Manifestos (Torrey House Press). Print. 
“hyperphagia, or sweet tooth” in Iron Horse Literary Review. Print. 
“hyperpastoral, or edging” in Kenyon Review. Print.  
“hyperpastoral, or fidelity” in Pleiades. Print. 
“hyperphagia, or transfiguration” in The Adroit Journal. Web. 
“pedicles, or this is where” in Queer Nature. Print. 

Prose: 

“willow” forthcoming in About Place Journal. Web. 
“Bear World” forthcoming from Flyway. Web. 
“resiliency, or tardigrades” in Quarterly West, Extreme Environments Special Feature. Web. 
“stripped down” in Third Coast. Print. 
“Watershed Moments: On Queer Eros, the Climate Crisis, & Memory in Brian Teare’s ‘Doomstead Days’” in Ecotone. Print.