Matthea Harvey (born September 3, 1973) is a contemporary American poet, writer and professor.

[3] She is the sister of artist Ellen Harvey and is married to editor Rob Casper.

She has published poems in literary magazines, including The New Yorker, The New Republic, Slope,[4] Ploughshares,[5] and The American Poetry Review.

[6] Jeannine Hall Gailey described Harvey's Modern Life, as "obsessed with devastated worlds and hybrid forms of life," and the two longest poems in the collection, the "Terror of the Future" and "The Future of Terror," as abecedarian sequences that examine "the dysfunction between civilian and military populations in a stark, futuristic environment.

all the more surprising coming from a writer whose sensibility seems so resistant to our usual ideas about 'political poetry.'