Mathew Spano

Mathew V. Spano has published poetry, short stories, and essays over the last twenty-five years, many of which are included in his first book "Hellgrammite" (BLAST Press, 2016) and second book "Imps" (BLAST Press, 2018). His work has appeared in various publications, such as The Los Angeles Times, Psychological Perspectives, Turtle Island Quarterly, Quantum Fairy Tales, The Yellow Chair Review, Frogpond, Cicada, This Broken Shore, The Heron's Nest, and Middlesex, as well as in anthologies, such as "Palisades, Parkways & Pinelands" (Blast Press, 2016); "Baseball Haiku: The Best Haiku Ever Written About the Game" (W.W. Norton & Co., 2007); and "The Poets of New Jersey: From Colonial to Contemporary" (Jersey Shore Publications, 2005). He has taught English Composition and Mythology in Literature as a full-time professor for over twenty-five years at Middlesex County College in Edison, NJ where he now serves as the English Dept. Chair. He earned his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, his dissertation focusing on the works of pioneering psychologist Carl Jung and Nobel laureate Hermann Hesse. Mat lives with his wife Stephanie and their two children in central NJ.