Matthew Sumpter

Matthew Sumpter is a poet and writer who teaches at Rutgers University, where he works in the Writing Program and runs the Livingston Writing Center. His poetry collection Public Land (University of Tampa Press, 2018) won the Anita Claire Scharf Award. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New Republic, and Best New Poets 2014, as well as in Glimmer Train. His essay "Mike Tyson Retrospective" in Pithead Chapel is his first published creative nonfiction.