Facts:   - imagesize: 150px    - notableworks: '' pear slip '' , '' skin shift ''    - influences: elizabeth fulton , frank o'hara , adrienne rich , wallace stevens bishop , virginia woolf , anne carson , h.d. , alice    - genre: poetry , essay      - birth date: 1 june 1978    - nationality: american    - birth place: bethlehem , pennsylvania , united states of america    - alma mater: university of michigan    - occupation: poet   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of matthew hittinger .
The answer to this question is:
matthew hittinger -lrb- born june 1 , 1978 -rrb- is an american poet and writer .