Farid Matuk

Farid Matuk was born in Peru to a Syrian mother and a Peruvian father, and has lived in the U.S. since the age of six. Matuk is the author of the book-arts project Redolent (2021), made in collaboration with Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez. He is the author of This Isa Nice Neighborhood (2010), finalist for the Norma Farber First Book Award, and chosen by Geoffrey G. O’Brien for recognition in the Poetry Society of America’s New American Poets series. He has also published the chapbooks Is it the King? (2006), Riverside (2011), and My Daughter La Chola (2013). His translations from Spanish have appeared in Kadar Koli, Bombay Gin, Translation Review, and Mandorla. He is a contributor to Scubadivers and Chrysanthemums: Essays on the Poetry of Araki Yasusada (2011), American Odysseys: Writings by New Americans (2013).

Matuk currently serves as poetry editor for FENCE and contributing editor for The Volta. The recipient of Ford and Fulbright fellowships, Matuk earned an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at University of Texas-Austin. He lives in Arizona.