Thea Matthews

Thea Matthews is the author of GRIME (City Lights Books, 2025), winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and Unearth [The Flowers] (Red Light Lit Press, 2020). Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, ZYZZYVA, Colorado Review, The Cortland Review, Kweli Journal, The Common, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, The Massachusetts Review, The New Republic, and Alta Journal, among others. Originally from San Francisco, she lives in Brooklyn, New York. www.theamatthews.com