Matthew Carey Salyer

Matthew Carey Salyer is a two-time finalist for the Iowa Review Prize in Poetry, a Pushcart nominee, and a semi-finalist for the Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes in Poetry. His poems, essays, and fiction have appeared in journals including Narrative, Massachusetts Review, Hunger Mountain, Poetry Northwest, New Orleans Review, The Common, The Florida Review, Plume, and Thrush. He has published critical essays with Nineteenth-Century Studies, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Modern War Institute, Mississippi Quarterly, Studies in Burke and His Time, and many others. He has taught humanities at the University of Connecticut, Bard College, the United States Coast Guard Academy, and other colleges.

At present, he is an Associate Professor at West Point. He lives in New York City and is the father of three children—his daughters, Rory and Vivian, and his son, Éamon—next to whom all things in this world pale.