Matt Goldberg is a writer and teacher based in Philadelphia. He was born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and lived among corn. His fiction reimagines the mundane through the lens of the absurd.
Featured work
“Rock Bottom,” Chatterbox! Literary, February 2026
“An Organic Farm,” Sundog Lit, March 2024
“Plant Life,” jmww, September 2023
“Karakung,” Philadelphia Stories, April 2023
“Dog Fever,” The Razor, April 2023
“Bees Wings,” Uncharted Magazine, February 2022, first place winner of Sci-Fi/Fantasy Award
“Calf,” Porter House Review, August 2022, selected for Best Small Fictions 2023
“Object!,” SmokeLong Quarterly, September 2022
“Stinktown,” The Normal School, January 2022
Media + News
Chatterbox! Literary Interview
An interview with Chatterbox! Literary diving into the art of revision, the emotional cost of chasing happiness, and the delicate high-wire act of balancing absurdism with raw emotional stakes.
LIVE at the Writers House
LIVE at the Writers House is a long-standing collaboration between the Kelly Writers House and of WXPN (88.5 FM), featuring a one-hour broadcast of spoken-word art on WXPN.
Short Story Today Podcast
The SHORT STORY TODAY podcast features the best of today's emerging
short story writers. Each episode contains a professional audiobook
performance of a story and an author interview.
Smoke & Mirrors Interview
An interview with SmokeLong Quarterly about the pitfalls of having a common name, the beauty of homophones, and the saving grace of human curiosity.
Past + Future events
Coolest American Stories 2024 Launch Party Reading
