Matt Singer is a contemporary fiction writer in Chicago.

When Matt was in elementary school, he wrote himself to sleep, filling hundreds of looseleaf pages with stories. Writing has been foundational to his life, professionally and personally. But, for too long, Matt was alienated from his first love—writing stories that emerged from his imagination.

That changed in the fall of 2021. Seeking connection with fellow right-brained humans after a year-plus of pandemic isolation, he took a class at StoryStudio Chicago. It changed his life. Matt found his art form, his art community. In the years since, Matt has completed StoryStudio’s Novel in a Year program and the follow-up “Long Haul” class, written two novels and a few short stories, joined StoryStudio’s board, participated in juried workshops at the StoryBoard Conference and Lighthouse Lit Fest, met more than a few of his favorite people, and learned from some of the best writers alive.

Matt writes accessible, tender, funny stories with emotional heft. He writes about our fundamental need to connect. He writes about the tension between pleasure and responsibility. He writes about masculinity and how the patriarchy warps men’s minds and their behavior. He writes about the often bizarre experience of living through this present moment. He sets out to portray humans as the infinitely complex beings we are—to capture our multitudes, the beauty and cruelty within all of us—and to trust readers to make their own judgments.

Matt aims to tell the stories that could only emerge from his weird human mind.