MATTHEW KING is a journalist, critic, and editorial strategist with a focus on business, culture, technology, and environmental ethics. His work explores themes of waste and inequality, covering topics ranging from zombie office towers and clean-up tech to wooden skyscrapers, urban climbers, space junk, digital prayer aids, and beyond. His culture writing tends to grapple with the emergence of hybrid art forms in the work of collagists and documentary filmmakers.

Over the past decade, his writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Baffler, The New Republic, MIT Technology Review, Literary Hub, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, New York Review of Architecture, and Pacific Standard, among other publications. Several essays have been anthologized online and in print, recognized as "Notables" by the Best American Essays series, featured in interviews on Chicago public radio, and quoted at length in scholarly articles and online forums alike, from the European Journal of Political Theory to Y Combinator’s Hacker News.

Born and raised in Illinois, he holds a Bachelor’s degree from NYU’s Stern School of Business and was an MFA nonfiction writing fellow at Emerson College. Currently based in Baltimore, he has lived or studied in over a dozen cities, and runs an editorial shop for B2B tech marketers. He is available for reporting assignments, book reviews, interviews, essays, etc. at mattking25@gmail.com.