Hi, I’m Lucian.
Nice to meet you.
Full-length poetry collections:
Curare (C&R Press, 2022)
Reaper’s Milonga (YesYes Books, 2018)
Peregrine Nation (Dynamo Verlag, 2017)
Poet, translator, fiction writer, 2023 International Latino Book Award Silver Medalist, Pushcart Prize nominee, workshop instructor, Web Content Editor, literary journal editor, gardener, hot sauce maker, thalassophile, big cat fan, ballet supernumerary, voice actor, backgammon player, hobnobber, jamon iberico consumer, West Ham supporter, bar pool shooter, shark advocate, pick-up basketball player, will read poems with you if you email me.
Author Bio
Lucian Mattison is a US-Argentinian poet and translator. He is the author of three books of poetry, Curare (C&R Press, 2022), 2023 International Latino Book Awards Silver Medalist; Reaper's Milonga (YesYes Books, 2018); and Peregrine Nation (Dynamo Verlag, 2017), winner of the 2014 Dogfish Head Poetry Prize.
He won the Puerto Del Sol Poetry Prize, nomination for a Pushcart Prize by The Cincinnati Review, and has poetry, short fiction, and translations that appear in numerous journals including The Adroit Journal, CutBank, Hayden's Ferry Review, LIT, The Nashville Review, The Offing, The South Carolina Review, and have been featured on poets.org. He received his MFA from Old Dominion University and is an associate editor of poetry for Barrelhouse.