Mathew Weitman's poetry appears or is forthcoming in Bennington Review, Copper Nickel, The Georgia Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. He is the winner of the Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, the AWP Kurt Brown Award for Poetry, and the Paul Verlaine Prize in Poetry. Currently, he is pursuing his Ph.D. in creative writing and literature at the University of Houston, where he is an Inprint Brown Foundation Fellow and a poetry editor for Gulf Coast.
At MacDowell in 2025, Weitman made significant revisions to his first manuscript, The Campus Novel: Poems, and began work on a long experimental essay in verse titled, "The Treachery of Images." He also translated two poems that will appear in the forthcoming anthology, Rolando Cárdenas: On the Life and Work of a Chilean Master (Pleiades Press, 2026), that he is currently co-editing with July Westhale and Felipe Acevedo Riquelme.
