Matthew Carey Salyer is the author of a pamphlet, Lambkin, and two collections, Ravage & Snare (Pen and Anvil, 2019) and Probation (forthcoming). His work appears in Southword, Narrative, The Scores, Columbia Review, The Common, PoetryNorthwest, and other journals. He has been twice a finalist for the Iowa Review Prize in Poetry, the Pushcart Prize, and a has been a semifinalist for the Brittingham and Pollak Prizes in Poetry. He works teaching literature at West Point and as a bouncer in New York City.
