Matthew Siegel is the author of Blood Work, which won the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry from University of Wisconsin-Madison and was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection by the Forward Arts Foundation. His poems and essays have appeared in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day program, The Guardian, PBS NewsHour, San Francisco Chronicle, the Sun, Tin House, and elsewhere. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, Matthew holds a BA from Binghamton University and an MFA from University of Houston. He lives in Oakland, California.