Matt Haw was born in Bedford and educated at Bath Spa University and Lancaster University. He is the author of two chapbooks to date: Saint-Paul-de-Mausole (tall-lighthouse, 2014) and Boudicca (Templar, 2021). His work has been recognised with an Eric Gregory Award and an East Anglian Book Award, and his poetry has appeared across a range of literary magazines in the UK, Europe, and North America, as well as on BBC Radio Three. He works as a librarian on an island off the west coast of Norway. Nordic Sublime is his first full-length poetry collection.