Matthew Gavin Frank Explained

Matthew Gavin Frank
Caption:Matthew Gavin Frank, 2011
Birth Date:November 25, 1976
Birth Place:Chicago, Illinois
Occupation:Writer
Genre:Creative nonfiction, lyric essay, poetry
Nationality:American

Matthew Gavin Frank (born 1976) is an American writer, specializing in creative nonfiction, the lyric essay, literary food and travel writing, and poetry.

Life

Matthew Gavin Frank grew up in Illinois, before graduating from Arizona State University with an MFA.[1]

He has previously taught at Grand Valley State University[2] and continues to teach in the English department at Northern Michigan University,[3] where he is also the Nonfiction and Hybrid Editor of the literary journal Passages North.[4] [5]

His nonfiction books include, Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa (2021) — named a finalist for the Heartland Booksellers Award in Nonfiction[6] and an NPR Best Book of 2021[7] —, The Mad Feast (2015), Preparing the Ghost (2014), Pot Farm (2012), and Barolo (2010).[8] Frank's books of poetry include, The Morrow Plots (2013), Warranty in Zulu (2010), and Sagittarius Agitprop (2009).

Frank's work has appeared in numerous magazines, including The New Republic, Conjunctions, The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, The Kenyon Review, Salon,[9] and Gastronomica and has been anthologized in The Best Travel Writing, Best Food Writing, and Creative Nonfiction: The Best of Brevity.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Noll. Michael. An Interview with Matthew Gavin Frank. Read to Write Stories. 31 October 2014. July 2014.
  2. Web site: Matthew Gavin Frank. Poetry Foundation. 31 October 2014.
  3. Web site: Matthew G. Frank. Northern Michigan University.
  4. Web site: Passages North Masthead. Passages North.
  5. News: Giraldi. William. Book Review: Preparing the Ghost by Matthew Gavin Frank. Wall Street Journal. 3 July 2014.
  6. Web site: Heartland Booksellers Award 2021: Meet the Finalists . .
  7. Web site: Best Books 2021: Books We Love .
  8. News: Local Author Matthew Gavin Frank Chats About His New Book Barolo. Michigan Live. 30 April 2010. Mindy . Earley.
  9. News: The origin of an appetizer: A look at the creation of calamari. Salon. Aug 30, 2014.
  10. News: Osborn. Alice. Sagittarius Agitprop review. The Pedestal Magazine. August 4, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141031192117/http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com/gallery.php?item=7736. October 31, 2014. dead.
  11. News: Lingan. John. Kind Buds by John Lingan. Los Angeles Review of Books. 2 April 2012. Heart of Dankness and Pot Farm present two very different examples of civilians wading into the legally murky, phenomenally profitable marijuana industry. The former is a globetrotting, journalistic trip through the nerdier echelons of marijuana development, while the latter is a lyrical, present-tense memoir that barely strays from its Edenic setting..
  12. News: Pot Farm Review. Kirkus. 19 December 2011.
  13. News: McCabe. Vinton Rafe. Pot Farm. 31 October 2014. New York Journal of Books.
  14. News: Mooallem. Jon. Into the Deep. New York Times. 11 July 2014. That makes "Preparing the Ghost" unsatisfying at times, but also alluring. It’s hard to imagine a better book about not entirely understanding giant squids. .

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