Matthew Burgess is the author of eight children’s books: Enormous Smallness: A Story of E. E. Cummings (Enchanted Lion Books), The Unbudgeable Curmudgeon (Knopf), Drawing on Walls: A Story of Keith Haring (ELB), The Bear and The Moon (Chronicle), Bird Boy (Knopf), Make Meatballs Sing: The Life & Art of Corita Kent (ELB), The Red Tin Box (Chronicle), and Sylvester’s Letter (ELB). Matthew edited an anthology of visual art and writing titled Dream Closet: Meditations on Childhood Space (Secretary Press), as well as a collection of essays titled Spellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry (TWC). More books are forthcoming, including As Edward Imagined: A Story of Edward Gorey (Knopf, 2024), The Purple One: A Story of Prince (ELB, 2024), Words With Wings and Magic Things (Tundra, 2025), and Fireworks (Harper Collins, 2024). An Associate Professor at Brooklyn College, Matthew has been a poet-in-residence in New York City public schools and currently serves as a contributing editor of Teachers & Writers Magazine.
Books in order of publication:
SLIPPERS FOR ELSEWHERE – 2014
Enormous Smallness – 2015
Dream Closet: Meditations on Childhood Space – 2016
The Unbudgeable Curmudgeon – 2019
Spellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry – 2019
Drawing On Walls: A Story Of Keith Haring – 2020
The Bear and The Moon – 2020
BIRD BOY – 2021
MAKE MEATBALLS SING: The Life & Art of Corita Kent – 2021
SYLVESTER’S LETTER – 2023
THE RED TIN BOX – 2023
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