Mat Wenzel, Ph.D.

• Book Chapters & Reviews
  • “Translating the Queer: Body Politics and Transnational Conversations by Héctor Dominguez Ruvalcaba.” Feminist Theory, Vol. 20, Issue 1, 2018
  • “Until the Cows Come Home by Alain Ginsberg.” Southeast Review, 2018
  • “Sky Ward by Kazim Ali.” Puerto del Sol, Vol. 49, No. 2, Spring 2014
• Articles & Essays
  • “Archie got hot: How embracing the queer art of failure allows The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina to open up new ways of representing queerness.” Riverdale: A Land of Contrasts, University of Fraser Valley, forthcoming.
  • “An Uber Ride with Dolly Parton,” Limp Wrist Magazine, forthcoming, Fall 2021(online)
  • “The Green,” Hobart, August 2020 (online)
  • “To the Person I Was Then, Living in Someone Else’s House,“ Lambda Literary Poetry Spotlight, 2019 (online)
  • “After the Angel of Ginsberg’s Whitman,” and “Sticks,” Stay Thirsty Poets, vol. 1, 2019
  • “Ode to My Sink Moths,” Homology Lit, issue 4, 2019 (online)
  • “Animatronic Armful of Groceries.” Carve Magazine, Fall 2018
  • “Bible Student Burns New York Church.” Crab Fat Magazine, August 2018 (online)
  • “Conflict is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair by Sarah Schulman.” American Book Review, May-June 2018
  • “Sissy Blood.” Glass: A Journal of Poetry, 2016. (online)
  • “New Hampshire.” Right Hand Pointing, Issue 87, 2015 (online)
  • “A Boy Named _______,” and “On Your Thirtieth Birthday,” Glitterwolf Magazine, Issue 8, 2015

Teaching:

• Robert O. Lawton Award for Excellence in Teaching College Composition, 2019
• Dr. William Strong Utah English Teacher of the Year Semi-Finalist, 2008

Poetry:

• Saints and Sinners Poetry Contest Finalist, 2021
• YesYes Books Vinyl 45 Chapbook Semifinalist, 2019
• Pushcart Prize XLVI: Best of the Small Presses Board of Contributing Editors nomination, 2018
• Notable Manuscript for the 2017 BOAAT Book Prize, BOAAT Press, manuscript Kindling, 2017.
• FSU Spotlight Award, Runner-up for Graduate Poetry, judged by Dana Levin, 2017
• Salt Lake City Pride Festival Poetry Contest Winner, 2015

Lambda Literary Fellow