Matthew J. Sadler

Matthew J. Sadler is a poet and educator, currently residing in Michigan.
Biography
Matthew J. Sadler was born in Southeastern Michigan on December 6, 1977 to David Sadler and Jeanne Arrand. His mother is Native American (of the Penobscot tribe, Old Town, Maine), but both parents were born in Detroit. He has a twin bother Mike and an older sister Julie. Sadler left the state of Michigan at age 18 and has lived, studied, and taught in Montana, Arizona, Texas, Northern Ireland, Maine, and Detroit Michigan. Matthew currently resides in the Detroit area with his family and teaches English and Writing as faculty at the Detroit Country Day School.
Sadler studied writing at the University of Montana under the poets Patricia Goedicke, Patrick Todd, Paul Zimmer, and at the University of Arizona under poets Jane Miller, Boyer Rickel, Jon Anderson. He also studied under fiction writers Deirdre McNamer and Kate Gadbow at University of Montana, and C.E. Poverman and Robert Houston at University of Arizona.
Career
Teaching
* Detroit Country Day School - English Instructor - August 2006 to present
* University of Michigan Summer Science Academy
* University of Maine - English Instructor
* Oakland Community College - Adjunct Instructor
* University of Arizona - Graduate English Instructor
Editorial Work
* Versal - Sadler joined the publication as a poetry editor for the international literary journal based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in the summer of 2009. Contributions to Versal 8, and the upcoming Versal 9.
* Red Ink Magazine - Red Ink is a Tuscon Arizona based student-run Native American literary magazine. Sadler contributed on the editorial staff in 2004, and briefly served as Managing Editor.
* Sonora Review - Sonora Review is a nationally distributed literary magazine based in Tuscon, Arizona. Sadler served as Editor-in-Chief from 2003-2004, and Managing Editor from 2002-03.
Works
Books
* The Much Love Sad Dawg Trio (Poems) - March Street Press, November 2010.
Chapbooks
* Tiny Tsunami - Flying Guillotine Press, Summer 2010. Tiny Tsunami was a limited edition, hand-bound chapbook.
* Everything Small is Big Again - 10HZ Press, 2007.
Literary journals, Anthologies and Newspapers
*"New Years's Pig" and "The Blue Glow Of" - The Salt River Review Volume 12, Number 3, Winter 2009.
* "Faint Music" - The Salt River Review Volume 11, Number 3, Winter 2008.
*"Waxwing" - The Salt River Review Volume 10, Number 2, Winter 2007.
* "Letter to Mary from the Future, Part 1" and "Letter to Mary from the Future, Part 2" - Versal No. 5, June 2007.
* "Letter to Layne" - Best of the Net 2006, www.sundress.com, January 2007.
* "Bubble Wrap and Packing Foam" - Detroit MetroTimes, July 2006.
* "Letter to Myself" - Poetry Center of Chicago's Juried Reading Award Chapbook, April 2006.
* "The Year My Father Grew Potatoes From Potatoes" - Poetry East, Fall 2006
* "Salt” and “Monsoon” - Passages North Winter/Spring 2006
* “Letter to Layne” in The Salt River Review Volume 8 Number 2.
* “Choirs of Angels” - Detroit MetroTimes Summer Fiction Issue, July 2005.
* “Because in the Movie They Got it All Wrong” and “Mars Rover Spirit, to Mars Rover Opportunity” - Versal No. 3, 2005.
* “Dreaming at Kyi-Yo” and “Naming My Mother” in Red Ink 11.2, 2004.
* “Uncertainty” - Poets for Peace (anthology of Arizona Poets), 2003.
* “Sunburst School” - Versal No. 1, 2002
* “The Chase” - Passages North Winter/Spring 2000.

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