I’m a journalist, critic, and editorial strategist based in New York.

MATTHEW KING is a journalist, critic, and editorial strategist, with a focus on technology, waste, inequality, and urbanism. His work covers topics ranging from zombie office towers and clean-up tech to wooden skyscrapers, urban climbers, space junk, digital prayer aids, and more.

His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Baffler, Boston Review, Literary Hub, Los Angeles Review of Books, New York Review of Architecture, and Pacific Standard, among other publications (see full clips here). Several essays have been anthologized by Longreads and Majuscule, featured on public radio, and cited as a “notable” in the Best American series for essays and science and nature writing.

Born and raised in Illinois, he holds a Bachelor’s degree from NYU’s Stern School of Business, and recently was a nonfiction creative writing fellow at Emerson College. He lives in New York with his wife and cavapoo, and is available for reporting assignments, book reviews, interviews, essays, etc. at mattking25@gmail.com.