Farid Matuk's first full-length collection, This Isa Nice Neighborhood (Letter Machine, 2010), was a finalist for the Norma Farber Prize, earned honorable mention in the Arab-American Book Award, and was chosen by Geoffrey G. O'Brien for inclusion in the Poetry Society of America's New American Poets series. He is the author of the chapbooks Riverside (Longhouse, 2011) and Is It the King? (Effing, 2006). Matuk is a contributor to the volume Scubadivers and Chrysanthemums: Essays on the Poetry of Araki Yasusada (Shearsman, 2012).