On Writing Presents: Matt Mason & Sarah McKinstry-Brown

Date: Tuesday, July 9th, 2024

Join us in the beautiful Benson Theatre lobby to particpate in an free, intimate, and engaging live reading and conversation with Nebraska State Poet, Matt Mason, and poet, teacher, and recipient of three Nebraska Book Awards, Sarah McKinstry-Brown.

Matt Mason is the Nebraska State Poet and has run workshops through the US State Department in Botswana, Romania, Nepal, and Belarus. Mason is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets and the Nebraska Arts Council. His work can be found in The New York Times, on NPR’s Morning Edition, in American Life in Poetry, and more. Mason’s 5th book of poetry, Rock Stars, was published by Button Poetry in 2023. Matt is based out of Omaha with his wife, the poet Sarah McKinstry-Brown, and daughters Sophia and Lucia.

Sarah McKinstry-Brown is the author of Cradling Monsoons (Blue Light Press, 2010) and This Bright Darkness (Black Lawrence Press, 2019). Born and raised in Albuquerque, Sarah is the recipient of three Nebraska Book Awards, an Academy of American Poets Prize, as well as a Sewanee Writers’ Conference Tennessee Williams Scholarship in poetry and a Nebraska Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship Award. An Editorial Board Member for Spark Wheel Press, Sarah’s poems appear in RATTLE, Ruminate, Smartish Pace, South Dakota Review, Sugar House Review, West Virginia’s Standardized tests (a beautiful irony given that she was, is, and will always be, a terrible standardized test-taker), and elsewhere. She lives in Omaha, Nebraska with her husband, poet Matt Mason, and their two children.