Matthew Stadler

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Matthew Stadler (born January 19, 1959) is a gay American novelist, editor, and essay writer.^[1]

Born in Seattle, Washington, he is a graduate of Oberlin College, and Columbia University. His work has appeared in Christopher Street, Mirage Periodical, Grand Street, the New York Times, Rocket, The Stranger, Wiederhall, High Times, and the Village Voice. He was Literary Editor of Nest for the length of its publication. He has received a Whiting Writers Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 2006 was named a United States Artists Ford Fellow by the Ford Foundation^[2]. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon where he hosts the back room, a series of dinners and conversations with artists, and teaches a class, Using Global Media, at his kitchen table.^[3]

Stadler is the founding editor of Clear Cut Press, a subscription-based book publisher co-founded with Rich Jensen in Astoria, Oregon in 2002.

In 2006, Stadler was commissioned by Amsterdam 2.0, a political and artistic project in Holland, to write and present a new work of fiction. The result was the long story "The City of Wool."