Matthew Nienow
Matthew Nienow is the author of two collections with Alice James Books: House of Water (2016) and If Nothing (Forthcoming, 2025). His work has appeared in Gulf Coast, New England Review, Ploughshares, and POETRY, and has been recognized with fellowships from the Poetry Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is currently pursuing a degree in Mental Health Counseling.
“How does one aim
toward nothing
without tripping
into nihilism?”
“It really matters to me to be engaged in the honest accounting of addiction. I don’t think we (at least in Western cultures) are very good at that. There is stigma and taboo on one hand, and a simultaneous encouragement/acceptance of patterns of addiction, whether it is in alcohol, food, sex, the internet, etc.”
October 22, 2023
