Mathew Weitman is a poet and educator. His 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 (selected by Kay Cosgrove), the 2023 AWP Kurt Brown Prize for Poetry (selected by Sherwin Bitsui), and is a two-time Pushcart nominee. He has received additional support in the form of residencies and fellowships from the MacDowell Foundation, UCROSS, Millay Arts, and the Bloedel Reserve.

Currently, he is pursuing his PhD in literature and creative writing at the University of Houston where he is an Inprint Brown Foundation Fellow and a poetry editor for Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts. As a Graduate Teaching Fellow, he is the winner of both the Provost Teaching Excellence Award and the English Department's Award for Outstanding Teaching in First Year Writing. Outside of the university, he leads creative writing workshops at the Harris County Jail.