Matt Schumacher's first book, Spilling the Moon, was published in 2008. A recent contributor to ZYZZYVA and Green Mountains Review, he was nominated for a 2006 Pushcart Prize and won the 2007 Willamette Writers Kay Snow Poetry Award. Schumacher has taught writing, literature, and humanities at a cornucopia of collegiate institutions and correctional facilities in California, Iowa, Illinois, Maine, and Washington. Educated at the University of Maine and Iowa Writer's Workshop, he currently teaches at Eastern Oregon University.

WELL LIT PRESS

Matt Schumacher's collection of new poems titled "Fire Diary" has been chosen as the winning 2008 chapbook contest entry and will be pressed this summer. It will be available for purchase on the web site. Read an excerpt.>>

Well Lit Press publishes high quality, artistic broadsides and chapbooks of poetry. All materials published by Well Lit are hand made, usually printed via letterpress, and appeal to poets, artists, and book-lovers who relish a fresh juxtaposition of image and word. Currently, Well Lit is preparing to print a chapbook after hosting a contest judged by Matthea Harvey We are also co-organizing a poetry festival in Louisville, Kentucky.

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