John Matthias was born in 1941 Columbus, Ohio. For many years he taught at the University of Notre Dame and continues to co-edit Notre Dame Review. He has been a Visiting Fellow in poetry at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and lived for much of the 70s and 80s in East Anglia. His books with Salt include Working Progress, Working Title (2002) and New Selected Poems (2004). He has published some twenty-five volumes of poetry, translation, criticism, and scholarship.