Books
Fiction, poetry, and the work between.
Carlo Matos is a novelist, poet, and professor whose work moves restlessly between forms—inquiring, slyly experimental, and deeply attuned to the lives we make on and off the page.
Featured Book
Featured
Book of Tongues: The Dead Letters of Pedro and Inês
An epistolary collection co-written with Amy Sayre Baptista, Tongues draws from the tragic medieval legend of Prince Pedro and Inês de Castro. This book reimagines their story through letters sent beyond the grave and out of time, voices that refused to be silenced.
More Books
Selected titles from Carlo Matos’s body of work—novels, poetry collections, and hybrid projects that blur the boundaries between genres.
As Malcriadas, or Names We Inherit
Poetry
A collection that excavates the names we are given, the names we claim, and the ones we bury. Gritty, lyrical, and rooted in working-class life.
We Prefer the Damned
Poetry — Unbound Edition Press
“The poems are flirtatious . . . deftly turn from the external world to the speaker’s inner struggle, where there are no clear answers. He sees “the difference between childhood and adulthood” as a time of illusory expectations—a time when “we survive our foolishness” or “we survive without it” –Ruben Quesada, Harvard Review
The Quitters
Novel — Tortoise Books
A scrappy collection of creative nonfiction essays about fighters, failures, and the dignity of knowing when to walk away.
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