About Matt
Wood-Tang.com is the personal website of Matt Wood, a reader, writer, baseball fan, and father of two living in Chicago. I’m a writer and social media specialist at the University of Chicago Medical Center by day, though as you’ll gather from some of my writing, I took a four-year break in a past life to be a stay-at-home dad. I’ve written for many places online and off, so if you’re curious check out my clips page.
I graduated from the Master of Arts in Creative Writing program at Northwestern University in 2007, where my final thesis won the Distinguished Thesis Award. I finished my undergraduate work at Indiana University in 1999, earning bachelor’s degrees in computer information systems, business process management, and operations management, with 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.
I started this site in 2001, back before I really knew what a blog was. I was hand-coding HTML pages because I knew how, and I liked to write. Since then I’ve migrated through just about every blogging platform, shut the whole thing down and restarted half a dozen times, and changed my mind about what I should post here more times than I can count. I use social networks for a most of what I used to do here, but I still post the occasional personal essay here. It’s not really a blog anymore, but I still can’t quite give up on it. I hope you found something good to read.
Thanks for stopping by,
Matt Wood
Chicago, IL