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
A novel-in-poems co-written with Amy Sayre Baptista. Drawn from the tragic medieval legend of Pedro and Inês de Castro, this book reimagines their story through letters that never arrived, 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
“powerful, frank, and moving… a haunting music.” — Scott Edward Anderson. A collection that moves through grief, desire, and the costs of staying human.
The Quitters
Novel — Tortoise Books
A scrappy, illustrated novel about fighters, failures, and the dignity of knowing when to walk away.
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