Matthew Dickman | |
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| Born | (1975-08-20)August 20, 1975 (age 50) Portland, Oregon, U.S. |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Portland Community College University of Oregon (BA) University of Texas at Austin |
| Notable awards | Kate Tufts Discovery Award (2009) |
| Parents | Allen Hull Wendy Dickman |
| Relatives | Michael Dickman (brother) |
Matthew Dickman (born August 20, 1975) is an Americanpoet. He and hisidentical twin brother,Michael Dickman, also a poet, were born inPortland, Oregon.
The Dickman twins (Matthew is the younger and slightly taller) were raised in theLents 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 poetSharon Olds.[1] They have a younger half-sister and an older half-brother and half-sister through their father, Allen Hull.[2] After starting at the elementary school across the street, the boys attended private schools. Matthew Dickman went toPortland Community College and then graduated with a B.A. from theUniversity of Oregon in 2001; the brothers then studied creative writing together at theUniversity of Texas at Austin.[1] The twins had a brief stint as actors, featuring in the 2002Steven Spielberg filmMinority Report as the precognitive twins.[1][2] After graduate school Matthew Dickman lived inHudson, New York, but by 2009 both had returned to Portland, where he worked atWhole Foods; both brothers supported themselves with food-service jobs since a joint apprenticeship to abutcher at age thirteen.[1]
Matthew Dickman has received fellowships fromThe Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin, The Vermont Studio Center, and The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.[3] He is the author of threechapbooks,Amigos,Something about a Black Scarf andWish 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 byAmerican Poetry Review and distributed byCopper Canyon Press.[1] He was also the winner of the 2009Kate Tufts Discovery Award for that book, and the inaugural May Sarton Award from theAmerican Academy of Arts & Sciences. His second full collection of poetry,Mayakovsky's Revolver, was published byW. W. Norton and Company in 2012.[4] He is also the coauthor with his brother, of the 2012 poetry collection50 American Plays, also published by Copper Canyon Press, and the 2016Brother, a collection of poems on their half-brother's suicide.[2] His third collection,Wonderland, was published in 2018 by Norton.[5]
His work has appeared inThe American Poetry Review,Tin House,Clackamas Literary Review,AGNI Online,[6]The Missouri Review,[7] andThe New Yorker.[8]
Dickman works in advertising where he is a freelance senior copy writer and creative director. He has been a Visiting Writer atReed College,[9] and is an adjunct fellow at The Attic institute in Portland.[10]
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