Matthew Newton

About

Matthew Newton is a writer, author, and editor from western Pennsylvania, where he lives in the Electric Valley with his wife and two young sons. He has written essays, many about class and culture, for Guernica, the Oxford American, and the Rumpus, and his reporting has appeared in the Atlantic, Esquire, Forbes, and Spin. He has been awarded grants and fellowships from Creative Capital, Staunton Farm Foundation, Creative Nonfiction, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. He is currently associate editor at Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh.