English Department Faculty

Suzanne Matson

Professor

Department

English

Publications

Books

Nonfiction:

  • Winnowing. Durham, NC: Duke UP, forthcoming fall 2026.

Poetry:

  • As Creatures. Corvallis, OR: Cloudbank Books, forthcoming fall 2026.
  • Durable Goods. Cambridge: Alice James Books, 1993.
  • Sea Level. Cambridge: Alice James Books, 1990.

Novels:

  • Ultraviolet. New York: Catapult, September 2018.
  • The Tree-Sitter. New York: W. W. Norton, February 2006.
  • A Trick of Nature. New York: W. W. Norton, April 2000.
  • The Hunger Moon. New York: W. W. Norton, July 1997.听

Poetry in Periodicals

  • 鈥淭he One in Philipsburg, Montana,鈥 鈥淭he One in Garibaldi, Oregon,鈥 , (6/11/2026).
  • 鈥淩econciliation,鈥 鈥淕hazal for Flight,鈥 65:2 (Spring 2026).
  • 鈥溾 Poetry Magazine 227.4 (January/February 2026): 330.
  • 鈥淏one Songs,鈥 The Southern Review 60.4 (autumn 2024): 615-19.
  • 鈥淚 Thank the Sheep,鈥 The Threepenny Review 179 (Fall 2024): 8.
  • 鈥淎s Creatures,鈥 Cloudbank 18 (2024): 5.
  • 鈥淢issionary, 1920,鈥 鈥淲ent into a Bar,鈥 鈥淐elia,鈥 鈥淭o Genda,鈥 鈥淟ittle Deaths,鈥 鈥淐alling Her,鈥 Re-Markings (Special Number: A World Assembly of Poets) 16.4 (November 2017): 163-66.
  • 鈥淲补迟肠丑.鈥澨73 (11/6/16).
  • 鈥淒ivision Street,鈥 鈥淪tory,鈥 鈥淩ishikesh.鈥 听听(2/27/14).
  • 鈥淔ound Haiku, Missing Beat.鈥 Washington Square Review (winter/spring 2009): 26.
  • 鈥淏irds at Six O鈥機lock鈥; 鈥淔rom SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS鈥; 鈥淩eading Lesson at a Farm Workers鈥 Community School, Woodville, California, 1942.鈥 Kippis! 1:1 (winter 2009): 29-31.
  • 鈥淗oneymoon Snapshot: Diptych.鈥 艾可直播 College Magazine 66.4 (fall 2006): 61.
  • 鈥淢ysore Pantoum,鈥 鈥淏allroom Dancing, A Vision,鈥 鈥淧hotographing Debra.鈥 Kestrel 18 (2005): 54-58.
  • 鈥淎lligator Country鈥 (reprinted), 鈥淏ackyard Soil, c. 1960,鈥 鈥淩enovation.鈥 Salamander: Then and Now 10th Anniversary Issue 9.1-2 (2003): 134-8.
  • 鈥淒esert Botanical Garden.鈥 厂辞耻鈥檞别蝉迟别谤 31.1 (fall 2002): 92.听
  • 鈥淎 Nickel Sun.鈥 New England Review 23.2 (spring 2002): 145.
  • 鈥淯nreasonable Fears.鈥 艾可直播 College Magazine 62.2 (spring 2002): 5.
  • 鈥淐ruelty,鈥 鈥淔lorida Wake.鈥 The Seattle Review 20.1 (fall 1998): 117-18.
  • 鈥淔or Frances, Who Can鈥檛 Stop Dreaming of Danger, Even When the Children Are Safe at Home.鈥 Poetry Northwest 38.4 (winter 1997-98): 40.
  • 鈥淣icholas, Refusing to Sleep,鈥 鈥淭hen, Nicholas.鈥 Salamander 4.1 (spring 1996): 7-8.
  • 鈥淟ove Poem.鈥 The Madison Review 17.2 (fall 1995): 54.
  • 鈥淢颈濒办/尝辞惫别.鈥 Harvard Review 9 (fall 1995): 88.
  • 鈥淭he Oath of Happiness.鈥 艾可直播 College Magazine 54.4 (fall 1995): 14.
  • 鈥淎lligator Country,鈥 鈥淓legy,鈥 鈥淭his Distance.鈥 Salamander 3.1 (winter 1995): 65-7.
  • 鈥淣ot Talking About God in America.鈥 Red Brick Review 1995: 14.
  • 鈥淧latia Talo,鈥 Wifery.鈥 Berkeley Poetry Review 27 (1993-94): 90-1.
  • 鈥淗辞尘别迟辞飞苍.鈥 艾可直播 College Magazine 52.3 (summer 1993): 25.
  • 鈥淔濒补驳蝉迟补蹿蹿.鈥 Harvard Review 4 (spring 1993): 36-7.
  • 鈥淭he Wreck of Days.鈥 Indiana Review 16.1 (spring 1993): 186-90.
  • 鈥淐补蹿别.鈥 厂辞耻鈥檞别蝉迟别谤 20.3 (winter 1993): 29.
  • 鈥淔arm Animals.鈥 Christian Science Monitor 85.62 (25 February 1993): 16.
  • 鈥淭he Beach.鈥 Sojourner 18.1 (Sept. 1992): 37.
  • 鈥淲辞谤谤测.鈥 Sojourner 17.12 (Aug. 1992): 6B.
  • 鈥淕谤别别办.鈥 Shenandoah 42.2 (summer 1992): 85.
  • 鈥淧etty Crime.鈥 Dominion Review 10 (spring 1992): 22.
  • 鈥淲oman with Distaff.鈥 Iris 24 (fall-winter 1990): c. 1989): 25.
  • 鈥淓legy for Neil.鈥 Southern Poetry Review 29.2 (fall 1989): 23.
  • 鈥淒ebussy,鈥 鈥淭here Was a Temporary Accident.鈥 The American Poetry Review 17.2 (Mar.-Apr. 1988): 21.
  • 鈥淭he Artist and His Model,鈥 鈥淭he Bohemian Wedding,鈥 鈥淭he Wound-up Girl Ice Skater.鈥 Fine Madness 3.2 (fall 1986): 6-9.
  • 鈥淚n Rovaniemi, Finland.鈥 Poetry Northwest 27.1 (spring 1986): 11-12.
  • 鈥淐oyotes,鈥 鈥淟etters,鈥 鈥淭ravelers.鈥 The Seattle Review 9.1 (spring 1986): 听79-82.
  • 鈥淐entralia Stop,鈥 鈥淛ackson County Census.鈥 The Seattle Review 7.1 (spring 1984): 17-18.
  • 鈥淎fter 鈥楥harming,鈥欌 鈥淭he Sunbather,鈥 鈥淭he Sunday Drunk.鈥 Poetry 142.2 (May 1983): 90-3.
  • 鈥淔ossils,鈥 鈥淟eaving Garibaldi.鈥 Poetry Northwest 23.4 (winter 1982-83): 听39-41.
  • 鈥淟ove in the Coal Mine,鈥 鈥淪cotch Coulee,鈥 鈥淣ewspaper Pictures out of Poland,鈥 鈥淲idow Aunts.鈥 Poetry Northwest 23.2 (summer 1982): 26-9.

Nonfiction Essays

  • 鈥淭he Cookie Fortress,鈥 in 鈥淐onnections,鈥 Globe Magazine, Nov. 19, 2023: 34.
  • 鈥淢y Barbie, my self.鈥 The 艾可直播 Globe July 30, 2023: K3.
  • 鈥湴芍辈: Dispatches from a Pandemic,鈥 Harvard Review, Nov. 20, 2020.听
  • "Winnowing," in "Connections," Globe Magazine, Jan. 6, 2019: 31.
  • 鈥,鈥 in 鈥淭ies,鈥澨New York Times, Nov. 23, 2018.
  • "For parents, gridiron isn鈥檛 just fun and games.鈥 The 艾可直播 Globe Oct. 31, 2009: A11.
  • "笔谤辞蝉辫别肠迟蝉.鈥 艾可直播 College Magazine 68:3 (Summer 2008): 50-1.
  • "Fellow Workers. . . .鈥 The Seattle Times June 27, 2005: B5.
  • 鈥淎 Thank-You Note.鈥 Child February 2000: 104.
  • 鈥淟ove Among the Ruins.鈥 Child February 1999: 111-12.
  • 鈥淒ays Like These.鈥 Child August 1998: 19.
  • 鈥淢颈濒别蝉迟辞苍别蝉.鈥 Child May 1998: 119. 听听
  • 鈥淲hen Nick Met Henry.鈥 Child Dec.-Jan. 1998: 151-2.
  • 鈥淗e鈥檚 Not Heavy, He鈥檚 My Baby.鈥 New York Times Magazine Jan. 12, 1997: 听54.

Short Fiction

  • 鈥淐onvention Center,鈥澨Harvard Review听48: (Dec 2015).
  • 鈥淢补苍驳别谤,鈥 Pangyrus (September 4, 2015) . Print version, Pangyrus 2 (fall 2016): 36-40.
  • 鈥淧ie,鈥澨Ploughshares Solo听3:1 (August 27, 2014).
  • 鈥淵our Best Yet,鈥澨Harvard Review听45: 92-108 (May 2014).
  • 鈥淏oys鈥 Choir.鈥澨Carolina Quarterly听62.3 (winter 2012):听 60-5.
  • 鈥淯濒迟谤补惫颈辞濒别迟.鈥 Mussoorie Writers (inaugural launch; June 4, 2012) Ed. Stephen Alter. . [No longer archived after website redesign.]
  • 鈥淧ersephone at Boylston.鈥 艾可直播NOW 1.5-1.11 (April 23-May 1, 2007), serialized in seven installments.

Column

  • 鈥淒isquieting Muses: The Politics/Poetics of Looking.鈥 Harvard Review 7 (fall 1994): 125-8.
  • 鈥淒isquieting Muses: Mnemosyne.鈥 Harvard Review 5 (fall 1993): 20-2.
  • 鈥淒isquieting Muses: Sylvia Plath and the Problem of Relation.鈥 Harvard Review 4 (spring 1993): 32-5.

Articles in Journals

  • 鈥淭he Liberty Committee: Finns, Sedition, and Montana Vigilantes during World War I.鈥 Journal of Finnish Studies 13:1 (summer 2009): 67-74.
  • 鈥淪trange Cities.鈥 Harvard Review 13 (fall 1997): 47-50. A special issue devoted to the poetry of Charles Simic.
  • 鈥溾榃ithout Relation鈥: Family and Freedom in the Poetry of Louise Gl眉ck.鈥 The Mid-American Review 14.2 (1994): 88-109.
  • 鈥淔lowery Codes: Sandra McPherson鈥檚 Poetics of Gender and Naturalism.鈥 Denver Quarterly 28.2 (fall 1993): 86-92 .
  • 鈥淥n Reclaiming the Universal.鈥 River City 13.2 (spring 1993): 118-124.
  • 鈥淧lease Don鈥檛 Call it the New Confessionalism.鈥 Harvard Review 2 (fall 1992): 164-66.
  • 鈥淭alking to Our Father: The Political and Mythical Appropriations of Adrienne Rich and Sharon Olds.鈥 The American Poetry Review 18.6 听(Nov.-Dec. 1989): 35-41.
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