Life

He graduated from Amherst College

Amherst College

Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,744 students in the fall of 2009...

, with a BA in Russian Literature, from the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

 with an MA in Slavic Languages, and from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with an MFA in Poetry.
He taught at New York University

New York University

New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...

, The New School

The New School

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, the University of Houston

University of Houston

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, St. Mary's College of California, and University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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He is an editor for Wave Books

Wave Books

Wave Books is an independent poetry press based in Seattle, Washington. It was founded in 2005, joining forces with Western Massachusetts-based poetry publisher Verse Press , and has published over fifty books, including works by Joshua Beckman, Dara Wier, Matthew Rohrer, Eileen Myles, Tyehimba...

, and teaches at University of California Riverside.

In 2011, he was a Guggenheim Fellow.
He had a Lannan Foundation Residency in Marfa, Texas

Marfa, Texas

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He won the May Sarton prize, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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He will appear at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is a free, public festival celebrating the written word. Started in 1996, the Festival is held on the last weekend of April hosted by the University of Southern California and features vendors, authors and publishers...

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He lives in San Francisco.

Works

• "Poem for John McCain", Boston Review, MARCH/APRIL 2009

• American Linden: poems, Tupelo Press, 2003, ISBN 9780971031098
• The Pajamaist, Copper Canyon Press, 2006, ISBN 9781556592447
• Come On All You Ghosts, Copper Canyon Press, 2010, ISBN 9781556593222

Translations

• Secret Weapon: Selected Late Poems of Eugen Jebeleanu, with Radu Ioanid, Coffee House Press, 2007

Anthologies

• Legitimate dangers: American poets of the new century , Editors Michael Dumanis, Cate Marvin, Sarabande Books, 2006, ISBN 9781932511291

External links

• "Matthew Zapruder", Poetry Foundation

Reviews

• "Come On All You Ghosts by Matthew Zapruder", Bookslut, February 2011