Mathew Weitman’s work appears or is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Bennington Review, The Georgia Review, The Missouri Review, Virginia Quarterly Review and elsewhere.

In 2021 his long poem "The Death of a Tree" was selected by Arthur Sze as the winner of the Loraine Williams Poetry Prize. Of the winning poem, Sze wrote: "‘The Death of a Tree’ is a tour de force, a strikingly original elegy that slowly and steadily develops emotional expanse and power by fluidly connecting a series of lyrical narratives. It also, slowly and steadily, deepens the experience of grief. With a 'sense that language erodes / memory or that it is memory / that erodes language,' the speaker chooses 'to forget the familiar / making riddles of you.' In this visionary and mythic journey, the poem moves with oblique exactitude from place to place, across wide swaths of time, and even to the underworld and outer space as it contemplates and delves into the heart of loss."

He is the winner of the 2024 Inprint Paul Verlaine Prize in Poetry, the 2023 AWP Kurt Brown Prize for Poetry (selected by Sherwin Bitsui), and is a two-time Pushcart nominee. He has also received a Summer Scholarship to the Fine Arts Work Center (Provincetown, MA) and a Bloedel Reserve Creative Residency. 

Currently, he is pursuing his PhD in creative writing and literature at the University of Houston where he is an Inprint Brown Foundation Fellow and a poetry editor for Gulf Coast. In addition to teaching at the University of Houston, he leads creative writing workshops at the Harris County Jail.