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Matthew Nienow

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http://www.goodreads.com/MNienow

born

July 15, 1983 in Los Angeles, The United States

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website

http://matthewnienow.com/blog

genre

Poetry

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Matthew Nienow is the author of three chapbooks: The End of the Folded Map (Codhill Press, 2011), The Smallest Working Pieces (included in By Way Of, Toadlily Press, 2009) and Two Sides of The Same Thing (Southeast Missouri State University, 2007). New work has recently appeared in Best New Poets, Indiana Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, Willow Springs, and elsewhere.

He has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts (2011), the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (2010; 2011), the Elizabeth George Foundation (2011), the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Foundation, the University of Washington and 4Culture (2009 2010).

He is currently attending the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in preparation for opening his o...more

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Matthew Nienow's Blog

Starting in the Yard

This past week I began work on the schooner Mycia, a 70 foot gaff-rigged fishing vessel whose roots date back to the early 1980's, and the Northwest School Wooden Boatbuilding, which I recently graduated from. Built partly in the backyard of its owners, it has stayed in their family traveling up and down the Inside Passage while they split their time between Sitka, Alaska and Port Townsend.

I ha...

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Average rating: 4.70 · 10 ratings · 2 reviews · 4 distinct works

	BY WAY OF by Matthew Nienow (Goodreads Author), Emily Carr, Diana Woodcock 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Two Sides of the Same Thing 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	The End of the Folded Map 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:
	Willow Springs 67 by Alexander J. Allison (contributor), Adrian C. Louis (contributor), Lydia Millet (contributor) 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:

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