Wood-Tang.com is the personal website of Matt Wood, a writer living in Chicago. I’m a former associate editor for Chicagoist.com and columnist for Chicago Sports Weekly. This summer, my essay, “Chicago Transit Priority“, will be featured in The Best of Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 3, edited by Lee Gutkind of Creative Nonfiction. My work has also appeared in Time Out Chicago, Babble, Gapersblock, and Ideal Bite, among others. You can see a full list of my freelance work, literary publications, works in anthology, and online writing on my clips page.

I work in IT by day, though as you’ll notice from the content of many of these essays, I took a four-year break to stay at home with my son Carter and daughter Sadie while freelancing and supporting my wife Debbie’s real estate business. I graduated from Indiana University in 1999 with bachelor’s degrees in computer information systems, business process management, and operations management, and a minor in history. Born and raised in a small town called Poseyville, Indiana, I grew up on basketball, popcorn, and the St. Louis Cardinals.

This site used to be a traditional blog, with daily bits of navel-gazing, narcissism, and ranting, but I’ve gotten that out of my system and whittled it down to my best stuff. I’m always working on something new, but you may have to wait a few weeks between updates. If you really want to stalk me these days you can follow me on Facebook, Twitter, or my new blog, The Negotiation Limerick File.

Thanks for stopping by,

Matt Wood

Chicago, IL