Matthew Hollis was born in Norwich in 1971, and now lives in London. His debut Ground Water (Bloodaxe Books, 2004) was shortlisted for the GuardianFirst Book Award, the Whitbread Poetry Award and the Forward Prize forBest First Collection; it was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Heis co-editor of Strong Words: Modern Poets on Modern Poetry (Bloodaxe Books, 2000) and 101 Poems Against War (Faber & Faber, 2003), and editor of Selected Poems of Edward Thomas (Faber & Faber, 2011). Now All Roads Lead to France: the Last Years of Edward Thomas(Faber & Faber, UK, 2011; Norton, US, 2012) won the Costa BiographyAward and the H. W. Fisher Biography Prize, was Radio 4 Book of theWeek and Sunday Times Biography of the Year. He has published the handmade and letterpress pamphlets Stones (Incline Press, 2016), East (Clutag Press, 2016), Leaves (Hazel Press, 2020) and Havener (Bonnefant Press, 2022). Leaves was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry Award 2021.

He is the author of The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem(Faber & Faber, UK, Norton, US, 2022). He was Poetry Editor atFaber & Faber from 2012 to 2023. His second book-length collection, Earth House, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2023 and was longlisted for The Laurel Prize 2023.