Matthew Dickman

The Dickman twins (Matthew is the younger and slightly taller) were raised in the Lents neighborhood of Portland, which declined into a dangerous neighborhood after a highway was built through it in 1975. Their mother, Wendy Dickman, raised them alone; her stepfather was the father of poet Sharon Olds. They have a younger half-sister and an older half-brother and half-sister through their father, Allen Hull.{{cite news |author=Alex Clark |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/19/brother-matthew-dickman-michael-dickman-interview |title=The only way I could really talk about his suicide was in a poem |newspaper=The Guardian |type=interview |date=June 19, 2016 }} After starting at the elementary school across the street, the boys attended private schools. Matthew Dickman went to Portland Community College and then graduated with a B.A. from the University of Oregon in 2001; the brothers then studied creative writing together at the University of Texas at Austin.{{cite magazine |author=Rebecca Mead |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/04/06/couplet-2 |title=Couplet: A Tale of Twin Poets |magazine=The New Yorker |date=April 6, 2009 }} The twins had a brief stint as actors, featuring in the 2002 Steven Spielberg film Minority Report as the precognitive twins. After graduate school Matthew Dickman lived in Hudson, New York, but by 2009 both had returned to Portland, where he worked at Whole Foods; both brothers supported themselves with food-service jobs since a joint apprenticeship to a butcher at age thirteen.

Matthew Dickman has received fellowships from The Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin, The Vermont Studio Center, and The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.{{Cite web|url=https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/authors/matthew-dickman/|title = Matthew Dickman}} He is the author of three chapbooks, Amigos, Something about a Black Scarf and Wish You Were Here, and three full-length poetry collections. His first book, All-American Poem, was winner of the 2008 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry, published by American Poetry Review and distributed by Copper Canyon Press. He was also the winner of the 2009 Kate Tufts Discovery Award for that book, and the inaugural May Sarton Award from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. His second full collection of poetry, Mayakovsky's Revolver, was published by W. W. Norton and Company in 2012.{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-393-08119-0 |title=Fiction Review: Mayakovsky's Revolver by Matthew Dickman|publisher=Publishersweekly.com |date=2012-06-25 |access-date=2013-05-01}} He is also the coauthor with his brother, of the 2012 poetry collection 50 American Plays, also published by Copper Canyon Press, and the 2016 Brother, a collection of poems on their half-brother's suicide. His third collection, Wonderland, was published in 2018 by Norton.{{cite web|url=http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Wonderland/ |title=Wonderland Book Page |access-date=2018-05-07}}

His work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Tin House, Clackamas Literary Review, AGNI Online,{{cite web|url=http://web.bu.edu/agni/authors/M/Matthew-Dickman.html |title=AGNI Online: Author Matthew Dickman |publisher=Web.bu.edu |access-date=2013-05-01}} The Missouri Review,{{cite web |url=http://www.missourireview.org/content/dynamic/author_detail.php?author_id=254 |title=The Missouri Review |publisher=The Missouri Review |access-date=2013-05-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130206020348/http://www.missourireview.org/content/dynamic/author_detail.php?author_id=254 |archive-date=2013-02-06 |url-status=dead }} and The New Yorker.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/search/query?query=authorName:%22Matthew%20Dickman%22|title = Search|magazine = The New Yorker}}

Dickman works in advertising where he is a freelance senior copy writer and creative director. He has been a Visiting Writer at Reed College,{{cite web|url=http://www.reed.edu/news_center/multimedia/2008-09/vw09_dickman.html |title=Reed College | News Center | Matthew Dickman |publisher=Reed.edu |date=2009-04-09 |access-date=2013-05-01}} and is an adjunct fellow at The Attic institute in Portland.{{cite web|url=http://atticinstitute.com/teachers |title=Teachers & Staff |publisher=Attic Institute |access-date=2013-05-01}}

• 2006 Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship{{cite web|url=http://www.provincetownbanner.com/article/arts_article/_/36711/Arts/2/9/2006 |title=Arts: Feb 9th, 2006 |publisher=Provincetown Banner |date=2006-02-09 |access-date=2013-05-01}}
• 2008 Oregon Literary Fellowships recipient{{cite web|last=Denning |first=Susan |url=http://paperfort.blogspot.com/2009/02/fellowship-recipient-matthew-dickman.html |title=Paper Fort: Fellowship Recipient Matthew Dickman |publisher=Paperfort.blogspot.com |date=2009-02-03 |access-date=2013-05-01}}
• 2008 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry.
• 2009 Kate Tufts Discovery Award
• 2009 Oregon Book Award finalist{{cite web|url=http://www.literary-arts.org/index.php?article=883 |title=Literary Arts |publisher=Literary Arts |date=2013-02-05 |access-date=2013-05-01}}

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• {{cite book |author=Dickman, Matthew |title=Amigos |publisher=Q Ave Press |year=2007}}
• {{cite book |author=Dickman, Matthew |author-mask=1 |title=Something about a black scarf |publisher=Azul Press |year=2008}}
• {{cite book |author=Dickman, Matthew |author-mask=1 |title=Wish you were here |publisher=Spork Press |year=2013}}
• {{cite book |author=Dickman, Matthew |author-mask=1 |title=24 Hours |publisher=Onestar Press/Poor Claudia |year=2014}}

• {{cite book |author=Dickman, Matthew |title=All-American poem |publisher= American Poetry Review |year=2008}}
• {{cite book |author=Dickman, Matthew |author-mask=1 |title=Mayakovsky's revolver |publisher=W. W. Norton |year=2012}}
• {{cite book |author1=Dickman, Matthew |author2=Michael Dickman |author-link2=Michael Dickman |name-list-style=amp |title=50 American plays : poems |location=Port Townsend, Wash. |publisher=Copper Canyon Press |year=2012 }}
• {{cite book |last1=Dickman |first1=Matthew |title=Wonderland : poems |publisher=W.W. Norton |year=2018}}
• {{cite book |last1=Dickman |first1=Matthew |title=Husbandry : poems |publisher=W.W. Norton |year=2022}}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20130119025908/http://www.aprweb.org/poem/bougainvillea "Matthew Dickman", Bougainvillea]
• [http://www.fishousepoems.org/archives/matthew_dickman/ "Matthew Dickman", Fishouse]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20090131210722/http://unyps.com/tag/matthew-dickman/ "Michael Dickman: “My Autopsy”", The Unofficial New Yorker Poetry Supplement]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20081204123125/http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_461_The_Manny.mp3/view "The 'Manny'", The Story, American Public Media]

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