Sebastian Matthews is the author of the poetry collection We Generous (Red Hen Press) and a memoir, In My Father’s Footsteps (W. W. Norton). He co-edited, with Stanley Plumly, Search Party: Collected Poems of William Matthews. Matthews teaches classes at Warren Wilson College and UNC-A’s Great Smokies Writing Program and serves on the faculty at Queens College Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing. His poetry and prose has appeared in American Poetry Review, Atlantic Monthly, Georgia Review, New England Review, Poetry Daily, Poets & Writers, Seneca Review, The Sun, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review and The Writer’s Almanac, among other venues. Matthews co-edits Rivendell, a place-based literary journal, and serves as poetry consultant for Ecotone: Re-Imagining Place. He is the Creative Director of Asheville Wordfest (www.ashevillewordfest.org).