Matthea Harvey

Matthea Harvey was born in Germany, spent her childhood in England, and moved to Milwaukee with her family when she was eight years old. She attended Harvard University as an undergraduate and earned an MFA in creative writing at the University of Iowa. Her collections of poems include If the Tabloids Are True What Are You? (2014), Of Lamb (2011), Modern Life (2007), Sad Little Breathing Machine (2004), and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form (2000). She has also published two children’s books: Cecil the Pet Glacier (2012), illustrated by Giselle Potter, and The Little General and the Giant Snowflake (2009), illustrated by Elizabeth Zechel. In 2017, Harvey was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. (Source)