Matthew Nienow is the author of three chapbooks, including The End of the Folded Map (2011). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in such venues as Best New Poets, Indiana Review, New England Review, Poetry Northwest, and Prairie Schooner, and has been recognized with awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Foundation, and Seattle’s leading arts organization, 4Culture. He lives in Port Townsend, Washington, where he works as a boat builder. (updated 1/2012)