Matty Layne Glasgow is the author of deciduous qween (Red Hen Press, 2019), winner of the Benjamin Saltman Award. His poems and essays have recently appeared in or are forthcoming from Copper Nickel, Ecotone, Houston Public Media, Kenyon Review, Missouri Review, Pleiades, Poetry Daily, Quarterly West, Third Coast, and elsewhere. He is a Black Earth Institute Fellow and co-editor of “Strange Wests” for About Place Journal. Matty holds a PhD in Creative Writing and English Literature from the University of Utah where he served as Editor of Quarterly West and coordinated the Wasatch Writers in the Schools program in local public schools and in the Utah State Prison. His dissertation, Bear With Me, is a collection of lyric essays that interrogates the figure of the bear arising from an American mythos of wilderness, through his symbolization of identity within the queer community, and ultimately perilous position given the ever-worsening environmental crisis of global climate change. He’s coordinated and facilitated public humanities programming throughout Utah, including Poetics of Birds at the Stokes Nature Preserve and Writing and Restoration Immersion at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. He is a Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.