Suzanne Matson | |
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Born | 1959 (age 64–65)[citation needed] Portland, Oregon, U.S. |
Academic background | |
Education | University of Washington (Ph.D 1987) University of Washington (MA 1983) Portland State University (BA 1981) |
Thesis | Present tenses in American poetry (1987) |
Website | suzannematson |
Suzanne Marie Matson (born 1959) is an American fiction writer, poet and professor at Boston College.
Matson has a B.A. from Portland State University, and an M.A. (1983)[1] and Ph.D. (1987)[2] from the University of Washington. As of 2022, she is a professor at Boston College.[3]
Matson is known for writing short fiction, novels and poetry. Her novels include The Hunger Moon,[4] A Trick of Nature,[5] The Tree-Sitter,[6] and Ultraviolet.[7] Her books of poetry have been reviewed by the Harvard Book Review.[8][9]
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)In 2012 Matson received a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship.[10][11]