After a rather extended and varied second childhood in New Orleans (street musician,
psych tech, riverboat something-or-other, door-to-door poetry peddler, etc.), Matt
Dennison finished his undergraduate degree at Mississippi State University where he won
the National Sigma Tau Delta essay competition (judged by X.J. Kennedy) and placed
third in the Southern Literary Festival for fiction. He is the author of Kind Surgery, from
Urtica Press (Fr.) and Waiting for Better, from Main Street Rag Press. His poetry has appeared
or is forthcoming in Verse Daily, Rattle, The National Poetry Review, Bayou Magazine, Autumn
Sky Poetry Daily, DIAGRAM, The New York Quarterly Magazine, Modern Haiku, Whale Road
Review, The Inflectionist Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, San Pedro River Review,
The G.W. Review, Gargoyle, Slipstream, Midwest Quarterly, Saranac Review, Sheepshead Review,
Blue Earth Review, Pembroke Magazine, Tulane Review, Chiron Review, Steam Ticket, Redivider
and Cider Press Review, among others. His fiction has appeared in ShortStory Substack, THEMA,
GUD, The Blue Crow (Aus), Prole (UK), The Jersey Devil Press, The Wondrous Real,
and is forthcoming in Story Unlikely.
He has also made short films with Michael Dickes, Swoon, Marie Craven and Jutta
Pryor.
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