Matthew Minicucci’s first full-length collection, Translation (forthcoming from Kent State University Press, 2015), was chosen by Jane Hirshfield for the 2014 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize. His work has been published or is forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, and West Branch, among others, along with the Best New Poets 2014 anthology. He teaches writing at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.  

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