BIOGRAPHY

Originally born (1974) and raised in Halifax, NS, matt robinson moved to Fredericton, NB in 1998  to attend grad school at UNB. He remained in Fredericton and worked at the University of New Brunswick for a number of years. He got married and then divorced.

In 2007 he returned to Halifax.

He currently lives in Halifax, NS, and works as a Residence Life Manager  at Howe Hall with Dalhousie University.  

Against the Hard Angle, his fourth full-length collection, was released by ECW Press in 2010 and is available at bookshops everywhere. 

Previous poetry collections by robinson include no cage contains a stare that well (ECW, 2005), a full-length volume of hockey poems, A Ruckus of Awkward Stacking (Insomniac, 2000), which was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial and ReLit awards, and  how we play at it: a list (ECW, 2002), as well as a limited edition chapbook from Frog Hollow Press, tracery & interplay (2004). A limited edition letter-pressed chapbook, also titled  Against the Hard Angle (Greenboathouse, 2009), was published in Fall 2009.  

Robinson’s poems have won a number of awards including the Petra Kenney International Poetry Prize, Grain Magazine’s Prose Poem Award, and 2009′s Malahat Review Long Poem Prize. He has also received the New Brunswick Foundation for the Arts Emerging Artist of the Year Award.

His poems have also appeared in a number of anthologies, including  The New Canon, Breathing Fire 2, Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada, Exact Fare Only 2, and Landmarks: An Anthology of New Atlantic Canadian Poetry of the Land, and been featured in programs such as the Halifax Regional Municipality’s Art in Public Places initiative. His poem ‘grand parade, halifax’ is publically featured in Halifax’s Grand Parade Square.

A Poetry Editor at The Fiddlehead during his time in Fredericton, robinson is currently involved with the Halifax literary journal All Rights Reserved as a Senior Editor. He has also served as a mentor in the WFNS’s Mentorship Program and been involved with Writers in the Schools programs in both Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

Robinson holds a BA and a BSc from St. Mary’s University, a BEd from Mount Saint Vincent University, and an MA from The University of New Brunswick. He is a graduate of Halifax’s J. L. Ilsley High School.