Matthew Praxmarer, MA, MFA

Continuing Lecturer

Introduction

Matthew Praxmarer is a Continuing Lecturer in the Department of English and World Languages. He teaches First Year Writing and Creative Writing.

Research Overview

Matthew Praxmarer regularly publishes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction to literary journals both online and in print.

Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars because to write demands thinking. --Brecht

Select Publications

• “Posthumous.” Charge Magazine, 11 May 2020.
• “Mothers and Sons.” Active Muse, 1 June 2023.
• “Advice for Squirrels.” Young Ravens Literary Review, 31 Dec. 2023.
• “The Perfect Dawn.” Our Day’s Encounter, 25 May 2024.
• “Pasta Vongole.” Figwort Literary Journal.

Teaching Focus

In First Year Writing, his classes interrogate current affairs and information literacy as a point of access to writing in an academic context. His classes are dialogic, critical, empowering. He takes writing seriously, but he doesn’t take himself particularly seriously. In both the first-year writing and academic classroom, he insists on extreme levels of creative freedom. Writing is an art and art is the proper task of life.