In Step With Indiana Authors... Featuring an Interview With Matthew Brennan

Abstract

Matthew C. Brennan, a poet and a teacher of English at Indiana State University, has been a resident of Terre Haute, Indiana, since 1985. Although born in St. Louis, he attended college, not in Missouri, but at Grinnell College in Iowa for his undergraduate degree and the University of Minnesota for his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. Matt, as he prefers to be called, played baseball for Grinnell and remains a devoted fan of the game. Growing up and in the summers while he was in college, Matt had many part-time jobs, for example, working as a clerk in an office and as a laborer in a factory. While finishing his doctorate, he was employed as an editor by a textbook publisher.