Matthew Buxton is a queer writer from Salt Lake City and is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program. He was a finalist for the 2024 YesYes Books Vinyl 45 Chapbook Prize and the Diagram Chapbook Contest, a semifinalist for the Verse Tomaž Šalamun Prize, and a winner of the Hopwood Theodore Roethke Prize judged by Sumita Chakraborty. His recent work appears or is forthcoming in The Spectacle, & Change, Court Green, and Frozen Sea, which nominated him for the 2024 Pushcart Prize.
