Matthew Buxton is a queer writer originally from Salt Lake City. Currently, he is an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writers' Program where he won a 2024 Hopwood Theodore Roethke Prize. Raised Mormon, his writing often interrogates tradition (whether religious, political, familial, or poetic) by navigating the surreal and camp.

He was also a finalist for the YesYes Books Vinyl 45 Chapbook Prize, the Diagram Chapbook Contest, a semi-finalist for the Verse Tomaž Šalamun Prize, and won the 2021 Academy of American Poets Prize for Emory University. His work has been supported by the Vermont Studio Center and appears or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, The Spectacle, & Change, Court Green, and Frozen Sea who nominated him for the 2024 Pushcart Prize.