Matthew Wimberley

Matthew Wimberley earned his BA in creative writing from North Carolina State University and his MFA in poetry from New York University

Wimberley is the author of two poetry collections: Daniel Boone’s Window (Louisiana State University Press, 2021) and All the Great Territories (Southern Illinois University Press, 2020), winner of the 2018 Crab Orchard Poetry Series First Book Prize. He is also the author of the chapbook Snake Mountain Almanac (Seven Kitchens Press, 2014), winner of the Rane Arroyo Chapbook Contest, selected by Eduardo C. Corral. Wimberley’s work has also appeared in numerous anthologies, including Dear Yusef: Essays, Letters, and Poems, for and About One Mr. Komunyakaa (Wesleyan University Press, 2024), edited by John Murillo and Nicole Sealey.

Wimberley was an assistant professor of English at Lees-Mcrae College in Banner Elk, North Carolina, and is currently a lecturer in English at Appalachian State University.