Beginner's Guide to a Head-On Collision

By Sebastian Matthews

• Title is a collection of poems related to pain and recovery

• Title will appeal to literary community, poetry fans, fans of Ross Gay, Ada Limon, and Mark Doty

• Market/publicity focus: bookstores

• Author plans to tour New York, Los Angeles, Asheville and other cities in North Carolina, Virginia

• Language: English
• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Release date: Sep 19, 2017
• ISBN: 9781597095693

Sebastian Matthews

Sebastian Matthews is the author of a memoir, In My Father’s Footsteps, and two books of poetry, We Generous and Miracle Day. His hybrid collection of poetry and prose, Beginner’s Guide to a Head-on Collision, won the Independent Publisher Book Awards' silver medal. Matthews is also the author of The Life & Times of American Crow, a “collage novel in eleven chapbooks.” His work has appeared in or on, among other places, the Atlantic, Blackbird, the Common, Georgia Review, Poetry Daily, Poets & Writers, the Sun, Virginia Quarterly Review, and the Writer’s Almanac. Matthews lives in Asheville, North Carolina. Learn more at sebastianmatthews.com.