A Conversation with Poet, Ted Mathys - Craft Talks at Saint Louis University:

Ted Mathys is an assistant professor of Creative Writing in the English Department at Saint Louis University. He is recently named president of the prestigious and venerable St. Louis Poetry Center, which was created in 1946. Mr. Mathys is also the curator for the 100 Boots Poetry Series at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation. Ted Mathys is the author of Gold Cure (Coffee House Press, 2020) as well as Null Set (2015), The Spoils(2009) and Forge (2005). He is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts St. Louis Regional Arts Commission. Ted Mathys was selected by Alice Notley for the Poetry Society of America's Cecil Hemley Memorial Award, and his poetry and criticism have appeared in American Poetry Review, BOMB, Boston Review, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, jubilat, Fence, The Georgia Review, PBS NewsHour and other publications. Originally from Ohio, Mr. Mathys holds an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he received the John C. Schupes Fellowship for Excellence in Poetry; and an MA in international environmental policy from Tuft's University.