Matt Thomas is a smallholder farmer, engineer, and poet. His poetry has appeared in Triggerfish Critical Review, Ponder Review, Hampden-Sydney Review, Hiram Review, Dunes Review, Avalon Literary Review, Galway Review, Milk House Review, Cleaver Magazine, River Heron Review, The Thieving Magpie, Common House Magazine, The Broken Plate, Spellbinder Magazine, Pinhole Poetry, Slab Magazine, Kestrel, Susurrus Magazine, Temz Review, and elsewhere. Disappearing by the Math, a book length collection, was published by Silver Bow in 2024. Cicada, Dog, & Song, a second full-length collection, was published by Serving House Books in 2026. Foxy Love: All-American Poems, a chapbook, was published by Kelsay Books in 2026. He and his family live in Virginia where they practice land conservation and stewardship in the historic Shenandoah Valley. They are glad denizens of DC, Philadelphia, Traverse City, and Marquette.