Matthea Harvey

Who is Matthea Harvey?

Matthea Harvey is a contemporary American poet, writer and professor. She has published three collections, most recently, Modern Life, which earned her the 2009 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award, and a New York Times Notable Book. She has published poems in literary magazines including The New Yorker, The New Republic, Slope, Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review.

Jeannine Hall Gailey described Harvey's Modern Life, as "obsessed with devastated worlds and hybrid forms of life," and the two longest poems in the collection, the “Terror of the Future” and “The Future of Terror,” as abecedarian sequences that examine "the dysfunction between civilian and military populations in a stark, futuristic environment."