Matthew Burns is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Heritage University in Washington.  He holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Binghamton University where he was co-editor of Harpur Palate.  His poem "Rhubarb" won the 2010 James Hearst Poetry Prize from North American Review and other poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Folk Art, Ragazine, Cold Mountain Review, The Georgetown Review, Paddlefish, Upstreet, Spoon River Poetry Review, Jelly Bucket, Memoir (and), Anderbo, Paterson Literary Review, Quiddity and others.

Event will take place in Smith Family Hall - Room #2388