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Award winning poet Matt Kraunelis holds
an English degree from Merrimack College in North Andover, MA and a law degree from Suffolk University Law School in Boston.
He is currently the Chief of Staff to the Mayor of Methuen, MA. He has formerly served as a government attorney and Methuen
City Councilor. He is a founding member of the Robert Frost Foundation of Lawrence, MA, and formerly served as the
Foundation’s Vice Chairman. Matt has been writing poetry for twenty years. His poems have appeared
in The Merrimack Review, The Alternative Voice, The Bridge Review and Romantics Quarterly.
He is a winner of the St. Francis Institute Poetry Award, and was two-time finalist for Merrimack College’s Aherne Poetry
Award. His poetry has been published nine times in the Eagle-Tribune as part of its Annual Spring Poetry Contest.
He has performed featured readings at Merrimack College, the Haverhill Public Library, Borders Books, Nevins Memorial Library,
Poetry Hoots throughout The Merrimack Valley and at Lowell Celebrates Kerouac events. He is also a founding
member of the Grey Court Poets, a Methuen based poetry writing group. His new chapbook
entitled Tackle Box is currently available to interested publishers. Mr. Kraunelis also writes songs, speeches and
literary fiction. His artwork includes many mixed media collage pieces. He lives in Methuen with his wife, Dawn, son, Jack
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