Matthew Zapruder, born in in Washington, DC, is the author of six poetry collections, including I Love Hearing Your Dreams (Scribner, 2024) and Come On All You Ghosts, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, as well as two books of prose: Why Poetry and Story of a Poem (Unnamed, 2023). Zapruder teaches in the MFA program at St. Mary’s College in Moraga and lives in San Francisco.


Photo credit: B.A. Van Sise

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with Matthew Zapruder

To celebrate the publication of his new poetry collection, I Love Hearing Your Dreams, we asked Matthew Zapruder some burning questions.

1. Who is your favorite character in fiction; your fave character in life?

Fiction: Elena Greco, “W. G. Sebald”
Life: Vic Chesnutt (sadly, no longer), Vivian Gornick
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