

{"id":1123,"date":"2021-11-24T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2021-11-24T16:43:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T21:43:12","slug":"matthew-goldberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/2021\/11\/24\/matthew-goldberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Goldberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 24pt\">Matthew Gol<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 24pt\">dberg<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/files\/2021\/11\/258252797_931014700844824_5140796488478442138_n-1.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1459\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/files\/2021\/11\/258252797_931014700844824_5140796488478442138_n-1-300x253.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/files\/2021\/11\/258252797_931014700844824_5140796488478442138_n-1-300x253.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/files\/2021\/11\/258252797_931014700844824_5140796488478442138_n-1-1024x864.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/files\/2021\/11\/258252797_931014700844824_5140796488478442138_n-1-768x648.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/files\/2021\/11\/258252797_931014700844824_5140796488478442138_n-1.png 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">Matt Goldberg is a recent graduate of Temple University\u2019<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">s MFA in fiction. Matt also holds an MSc in Environmental Policy and Regulation from the London School of Economics and has a background working in climate change policy and clean tech innovation. While at Temple, Matt taught undergraduate playwriting, fiction workshops, and first-year writing. He currently works as a UX Content Strategist at Skylight, a digital consultancy using design and technology to help government agencies deliver better public services. Matt\u2019s stories have appeared or are forthcoming in a number of literary journals and magazines, including <em>The Normal School<\/em>, <em>Coolest American Stories<\/em>, <em>Bards and Sages Quarterly, Maudlin House<\/em>, <em>Bending Genres<\/em>, <em>Pif<\/em><\/span><em style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">\u00a0Magazine<\/em><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">, <\/span><em style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">Entropy<\/em><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">, <\/span><em style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">Call Me [Brackets<\/em><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">], <\/span><em style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">Apiary Magazine<\/em><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">, <\/span><em style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">The Hoosier Review<\/em><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">, and others. He is also a winner of <\/span><em style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">The Arcanist&#8217;s<\/em><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\"> 2021 Hunger Flash contest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\"><strong>Contact:<\/strong> @mattmgoldberg on Twitter<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\"><strong>Program\/Graduation:<\/strong> MFA Fiction, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">Read a<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">bout Matt\u2019s experience speaking at the United Nations <\/span><a style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.bioliteenergy.com\/blogs\/road-to-impact\/why-was-biolite-at-the-un\">here<\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\"><strong>Featured Work:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">\u201cTherapunitive Intervention\u201d in <em>Coolest American Stories 2022<\/em> (collection comes out Jan. 2022) Folks can preorder the collection on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Coolest-American-Stories-2022-Mark\/dp\/1737573903\/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&amp;keywords=coolest+american+stories+2022&amp;qid=1634590648&amp;sr=8-2\">Amazon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/coolest-american-stories-2022-mark-wish\/1140360411?ean=9781737573906\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/itascabooks.com\/coolest-american-stories-2022\/\">Itasca Books<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/maudlinhouse.net\/ancestry-test\/\">Ancestry Test<\/a>,\u201d <em>Maudlin House<\/em>, July 2021<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thearcanist.io\/tick-bit-c9b12e1d68bc\">Tick Bit<\/a>,\u201d <em>The A<\/em><\/span><em style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">rcanist<\/em><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">, June 2021, Winner of Hunger Flash Contest<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/bendinggenres.com\/watdozitalmene\/\">Watdozitalmene<\/a>,\u201d <em>Bending Genres<\/em>, June 2021<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pifmagazine.com\/2021\/04\/i-dont-like-your-sweater\/\">I Don\u2019t Like Your Sweater<\/a>,\u201d <em>Pif Magazine<\/em>, April 2021<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoosier-review.com\/worth\">Worth<\/a>,\u201d <em>Hoosier Review<\/em>, January 2020<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">To be featured, contact Jenna Sterling at TempleGEA@gmail.com or <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/grad-student-spotlights\/\">click here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Goldberg Matt Goldberg is a recent graduate of Temple University\u2019s MFA in fiction. Matt also holds an MSc in Environmental Policy and Regulation from the London School of Economics &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/2021\/11\/24\/matthew-goldberg\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Matthew Goldberg<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22822,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geaspotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22822"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}