Matthew James Babcock teaches composition, creative writing, and literature at BYU-Idaho in Rexburg. He received his PhD from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He was a recipient of the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Award in 2008. He has been nominated for a pushcart twice and won first place n Press 53's novella competition in 2010 for "He Wanted to Be a Cartoonist for The New Yorker." His debut fiction collection, Future Perfect, will be published by Queen's Ferry Press (Plano, Texas) in 2016, and his debut poetry collection, Points of Reference, will be published by Folded Word (Meredith, NH), also in 2016.
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