Matt O'Donnell
Maine native Matt O'Donnell, Fishouse Editor & Executive Director, graduated from Holy Cross College and earned an MFA in poetry from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is Associate Editor of
Bowdoin magazine at Bowdoin College, and an assistant editor of
Poets on Poets, a Romantic Circles project edited by Tilar Mazzeo at Colby College. A long time professional ski instructor, he also directs a
telemark ski program for the Bowdoin College Outing Club. He has lived and taught in Thredbo, Australia, and Aspen, Colorado; worked on the grounds crew at Fenway Park; and was for a brief time a professional golf caddie in South Africa. O'Donnell founded From the Fishouse with
Camille T. Dungy in August 2004 and officially launched it in April 2005. His poems have appeared in journals such as
The Greensboro Review,
32 Poems Magazine, and
Ecotone, and he co-edited with Dungy and
Jeffrey Thomson the recent collection
From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (
Persea Books, 2009).
Articles about Fishouse and interviews with O'Donnell can be found elsewhere on the Web:
The Academy of American Poets;
College Campus News;
Holy Cross Magazine;
The Poetry Foundation ("Poetry Off the Shelf" podcast);
Poets & Writers Magazine;
Publisher's Weekly;
The Times Record (Brunswick, Maine);
and Utne Reader.
Posted on April 14, 2005 6:46 AM
