Matthew Murrey’s poems have appeared in many journals such as Prairie Schooner, Rattle, and Under a Warm Green Linden. He’s the recipient of an NEA Fellowship, and his debut collection, Bulletproof—selected by Marilyn Nelson—was published in February 2019 by Jacar Press - http://jacarpress.com/bulletproof/.Murrey was born and raised in Florida. After college he moved to Chicago to live in a Catholic Worker house - where he met his partner. He worked in community mental health centers until becoming a librarian in 2001. He is the librarian at the public high school in Urbana, Illinois where he lives with his partner; they have two grown sons.