Matthew Gavin Frank is the author of the poetry collections Barolo (forthcoming from The University of Nebraska Press) and Sagittarius Agitprop (Black Lawrence Press), and the chapbooks Four Hours to Mpumalanga (Pudding House Publications) and Aardvark (West Town Press). Recent work appears in The New Republic, FIELD, Epoch, The Best Food Writing 2006, The Best Travel Writing 2008, and elsewhere. He was born and raised in Illinois and teaches English and creative writing at Grand Valley State University. (updated 11/2009)

Frank’s Sagittarius Agitprop was reviewed in AGNI Online by Rachel Mennies.