Matt Howard lives in Norwich, where he works for the RSPB. He is a steering group member of New Networks for Nature, an eco-organisation that asserts the central importance of landscape and nature in our cultural life. His first full collection is Gall (The Rialto, 2018) and was winner of the 2018 East Anglian Book Award for Poetry.

Matt Howard's work featured in Stand Magazine comprises three contributions of poetry, over a period of seven years.