Matt Colangelo's writing has appeared in Munchies, Food & Wine, Tasting Table, Human Parts, and Native. He holds a Master's in English Literature from Oxford University and has recently completed an MFA in fiction at The New School. As of September, 2018, he will be living in central Italy on a Fulbright documenting the region's ongoing struggles with earthquakes.

Before starting his MFA, Matt was an Associate Director of Creative Strategy at a web design firm (Code & Theory) and Director of Strategy at an ad agency (Y&R New York). In 2013, he ran a blog called 90 Days of Making, which he spoke about at SXSW 2014 and which led to his starting a Y&R satellite office called Moonshop.