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My book, Becoming the Villainess, has been released by Steel Toe Books!
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An interview with Matthea Harvey at the Poetry Foundation web site.

A new review of Becoming the Villainess at Rattle!

Three of my poems (Dogwood, Turning Back, He Makes Dinner) win one of the top Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prizes!

Two poems from Becoming the Villainess appear in the 2007 The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror.

Maya Jewell Zeller reviews Becoming the Villainess at LitList.

"Autobiography" appears in the inaugural issue of Barn Owl Review.

"My Little Brother Learns Japanese" appears in the Winter 2008 issue of Calyx.

Look for two poems, "Winter Etude (with Playstation Accompaniment)" and "A Love Letter to Hayao Miyazaki" which will appear in issue 15 of Smartish Pace.

Two poems from Becoming the Villainess appeared on The Writer's Almanac. "Spy Girls," was read by Garrison Keillor on the Writer's Almanac on June 16, 2006. "Female Comic Book Superheroes" was featured on The Writer's Almanac on July 7, 2006.

Several poems from Becoming the Villainess have appeared on Verse Daily, including "When Red Becomes the Wolf" on the April 30, 2006 issue of Verse Daily and "Femme Fatale" on Verse Daily on April 5th, 2006.

My Poet "Bio"

I have an MA in English from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific University. I'm teaching with the Young Artist Project at Centrum this year. I volunteer as a editorial consultant for Crab Creek Review, write book reviews for literary journals, and love to teach classes and give readings (so contact me!) I recently received a Washington State Artist Trust GAP Grant and a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize.

My first book of poetry, Becoming the Villainess, was published by Steel Toe Books in April 2006, and my chapbook, Female Comic Book Superheroes, is available from  Pudding House Press.
My favorite poets include Louise Glück, Dana Levin, Margaret Atwood, Denise Duhamel, Louis Simpson, and Lucille Clifton. I read mythologies for inspiration, like Ovid's Metamorphoses, folk and fairy tale collections (especially Andrew Lang's Fairy Books,) The Bible, and of course, comic books. Right now I'm reading The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon and the Tales of Genji.

For more details, see my "curriculum vita."

Special thanks to Paul Guidan for use of his cool Wonder Woman illustration.