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Matthew Silverman (M. E. Silverman) is an American poet, who founded the poetry magazine known as Blue Lyra Review and a press called Blue Lyra Press that both focus on publishing diverse voices but do not exclude anyone from any label/identity. He was educated at Louisiana State University (B.A.) and then McNeese State University (M.F.A.).

He has published two books of poems. He co-edited the anthologies The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry (2013) with Deborah Ager and is working on two more Jewish focused anthologies.

His writing has appeared in over 90 journals including Crab Orchard Review, December, Chicago Quarterly Review, North Chicago Review, The Southern Poetry Anthology, Many Mountains Moving, Pacific Review, The Los Angeles Review, and many others.

He is a poet and editor. His poems often focus on Jewish magical realism, family narratives, and a series on the last living Jew in Afghanistan, Zablon Simintov.

He is married to the law professor and author, Karen J. Sneddon. They have one daughter, Isabel. They live in Forsyth, Georgia.