Matthew Rettino is a poet and speculative fiction writer from Montreal who gravitates towards the historical, the weird, and the fantastic. After studying modern fantasy literature for his SSHRC-funded master’s thesis at McGill University in 2016, he attended the Odyssey Writing Workshop and served as managing editor for Scrivener Creative Review. Over the years, he has interviewed poets such as George Elliott Clarke, Greg Santos, Ilona Martonfi, and Jerome Ramcharitar, as well as fantasy authors such as Joshua Philip Johnson, Claude Lalumière, and R. F. Kuang. One of his current projects consists of writing blog reviews of all 110 stories in Ann and Jeff VanderMeer’s The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories.

His poetry has appeared in Lothlórien Poetry Journal and Lantern Magazine and is forthcoming in The Pit Periodical. His fiction has appeared in NewMyths.com and Bards and Sages Quarterly, while a new short story is forthcoming in an anthology from AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review.

You can usually find Matthew in Montreal reading his poetry and prose at the Accent Open Mic. You can find out more about him at www.matthewrettino.com and follow his newsletter at buttondown.com/MatthewRettino.

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