Matthew Gellman, Third Place winner of Narrative’s Seventeenth Annual Poetry Contest, is the author of Beforelight (BOA, 2024) and The Understudy (Four Way Books, 2025). He earned an MFA from Columbia University and has received several honors, including an Academy of American Poets Prize. Gellman lives in Los Angeles and is a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Weddings of One, poetry, in Fall 2025
- Grand Island, Nebraska, poetry, in Spring 2022
- Replica, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2021–2022
- Black Sand, poetry, in Spring 2019
- Brother in C Minor, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2017–2018