Matt Thomas is a smallholder farmer, engineer, and Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominated poet. His poetry has appeared in The Wild Word, Tiny Seeds Literary Journal, Bear Paw Arts Review, Triggerfish Review, the Hampden-Sydney Review, Hiram Review, Galway Review, Cleaver Magazine, River Heron Review, Dunes Review, the Avalon Literary Review, Halfway Down the Stairs, Copihue Poetry, Sussurus Magazine, Pinhole Poetry, engine idling Lit, and elsewhere. Disappearing by the Math, a book length collection, was published by Silver Bow in 2024.

Matt received his MA in Literature from Old Dominion University where his research focused on rhetoric and technology. After graduating he started a software consulting company which began a thirty year career in business software development and information technology. He published his first poem at age 50 and has published regularly since then. 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.