T. Carlo Matos

Carlo Matos has published twelve books, including We Prefer the Damned (forthcoming Unbound Edition Press, 2021) and The Quitters (Tortoise Books, 2017). His poems, stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in such journals as Iowa Review, Boston Review, Modern Drama, Rhino, PANK, and Diagram, among many others. Carlo has received grants and fellowships from Disquiet ILP (Portugal), CantoMundo, the Illinois Arts Council, the Sundress Academy for the Arts, and the La Romita School of Art (Italy). He is a founding member of the Portuguese-American writers collective Kale Soup for the Soul and a winner of the Heartland Poetry Prize. He currently lives in Chicago, is a professor at the City Colleges of Chicago, and is a former MMA fighter and kickboxer. He can also be found writing poems on demand with Poems While You Wait. Follow him on twitter @CarloMatos46. He blogs at carlomatos.blogspot.com