Matthew Olzmann is the author of Constellation Route (2022), as well as two previous collections of poetry: Mezzanines (2013), which won a Kundiman Poetry Prize, and Contradictions in the Design (2016), described as “that rare thing that embraces complication while, at every turn, filling us with wonder,” by C. Dale Young. Olzmann is a recipient of fellowships from Kundiman, MacDowell, the Kresge Arts Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. His poems have appeared in the New York Times, Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prizes, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. With Ross White, Olzmann edited Another & Another: An Anthology from the Grind Daily Writing Series (2012). He is the poetry editor of the Collagist.

Olzmann earned his BA from the University of Michigan-Dearborn and MFA from Warren Wilson College. He is an assistant professor at Dartmouth College and also teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson.