Matt Ribel

Literary Coach, Collaborative Writer, and Development Editor

Matt Ribel is an award-winning magazine journalist who began his career as a speechwriter in Washington, DC, and today works across a wide range of nonfiction mediums, including books, speeches, and op-eds and essays. His past clients have included presidential candidates and cabinet secretaries, actors and musicians, scholars and scientists, and Fortune 100 executives from many industries. His collaborative work has been published by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and two dozen other outlets. 

Matt specializes in supporting authors with heterodox ideas, unconventional solutions, or difficult-to-explain theories. He loves helping scientists, physicians, and explorers of all kinds bring process to the madness, make sharper arguments, and tell stories that span continents and centuries. 

His own long-form writing has appeared in WIRED and Washingtonian, and two of his stories are being adapted for television by major studios. His literary influences include Charles Portis, Agustín Fernández Mallo, John McPhee, and Elif Batuman. You can read his work on this website. 

 Matt studied anthropology at Emory University and nonfiction writing at The Johns Hopkins University. He’s fond of desert vegetation, freak folk, opals, and Frog and Toad. He lives on top of an abandoned coal mine in Durango, Colorado with his wife, two dogs, several bears, and a legion of wild turkeys.