Suzanne Matson Explained

Suzanne Matson
Birth Place:	Portland, Oregon, U.S.
Education:	University of Washington (Ph.D 1987) University of Washington (MA 1983)Portland State University (BA 1981)
Thesis Title:	Present tenses in American poetry
Thesis Url:	https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/
Thesis Year:	1987

Suzanne Marie Matson (born 1959) is an American fiction writer, poet and professor at Boston College.

Education and career

Matson has a B.A. from Portland State University, and an M.A. (1983)^[1] and Ph.D. (1987)^[2] from the University of Washington. As of 2022, she is a professor at Boston College.^[3]

Work

Matson is known for writing short fiction, novels and poetry. Her novels include The Hunger Moon,^[4] A Trick of Nature,^[5] The Tree-Sitter,^[6] and Ultraviolet.^[7] Her books of poetry have been reviewed by the Harvard Book Review.^{[8] [9]}

Selected publications

• Book: Matson, Suzanne . Sea level : poems . 1990 . A. James Books . 0-914086-84-7 . Cambridge, Mass. . 21973571.
• Book: Matson, Suzanne . Durable goods : poems . 1993 . Alice James Books . 1-882295-00-5 . Cambridge, Mass. . 27811654.
• Book: Matson, Suzanne . The Hunger Moon . 1997-07-17 . W. W. Norton & Company . English.
• Book: Matson, Suzanne . Ultraviolet . 2018 . 978-1-936787-95-1 . New York . 1049803120.

Honors and awards

In 2012 Matson received a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship.^{[10] [11]}

Notes and References

1. Night train . 1983 . English . Suzanne Marie . Matson. 9809621 .
2. Present tenses in American poetry . 1987 . English . Suzanne . Matson. 17212609 .
3. Web site: 2014-06-05 . Bio . 2022-06-06 . Suzanne Matson . en.
4. Reviews for The Hunger Moon
   • News: Lyall . Sarah . Women's Place . The New York Times . 21 September 1997 . 11 May 2019.
   • Deihl . Marcia . 1997 . Review of The Hunger Moon . Harvard Review . 13 . 211–212 . 27560973 . 1077-2901.
5. Review for A Trick of Nature
   • News: Steinberg . Sybil S. . March 20, 2000 . A Trick of Nature . 247 . 74 . Publishers Weekly; New York . 12 . ProQuest.
6. Reviews for The Tree-Sitter
   • Web site: Rossi . Jim . Going out on a limb for love, activism . Los Angeles Times . 27 February 2006 . 11 May 2019.
   • Crapo . Trish . 2006 . Wallace . Melanie . Egan . Jennifer . Matson . Suzanne . Gruen . Sara . Field Notes: Fiction . The Women's Review of Books . 23 . 5 . 26–27 . 4024618 . 0738-1433.
7. Reviews for Ultraviolot
   • Briefly Noted . The New Yorker . Condé Nast . 11 May 2019.
   • Web site: Ultraviolet Review . Publishers Weekly . PWxyz LLC . 11 May 2019.
8. Weiner . Harte . 1990 . Review of Sea Level . Harvard Book Review . 17/18 . 17–18 . 27500132 . 1080-6067.
9. Brouwer . Joel . 1994 . Review of Durable Goods . Harvard Review . 6 . 195–197 . 27560101 . 1077-2901.
10. Web site: Suzanne Matson . 2022-08-15 . www.arts.gov . en.
11. Web site: Shanahan . Mark . Goldstein . Meredith . November 19, 2011 . NEA awards grants to local writers - The Boston Globe . 2022-08-15 . BostonGlobe.com . en-US.