Matt Morton is the recipient of the Sycamore Review 2014 Wabash Prize for Poetry, selected by Bob Hicok. He has been a finalist for a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and a finalist in the Narrative Magazine 30 Below Story and Poetry Contest, and his poems appear or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Quarterly West, West Branch, and elsewhere. Originally from Rockwall, Texas, he lives in Baltimore, where he is a Lecturer in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.