Sarah MatthesSarah Matthes is a poet from central New Jersey, which exists. Her debut collection of poetry won the 2020 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize , and is forthcoming with Persea Books in Spring of 2021. Poems hav appeared or are forthcoming with Pleiades, The Iowa Review, Black Warrior Review, Yalobusha Review, poets.org, and elsewhere. Matthes has received support for her work from the Yiddish Book Center, and is the recipient of the 2019 Tor House Prize from the Robinson Jeffers Foundation and the 2019 Andrew Julius Gutow Prize from the Academy of American Poets. She holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers and a BA in English & Creative Writing from Yale University. She serves as the managing editor of Bat City Review, and lives in Austin TX. Read More Read Less