Matthew Rossi

Matthew Rossi is a short story writer, novelist, and essayist. Prior to joining the faculty at Barnard, Matthew was an associate professor of writing and rhetoric at Michigan State University, where he taught courses in first-year writing and creative writing, was also awarded grants for program development, led faculty learning communities, and was the managing editor of the Red Cedar Review and the REO Town Reading Anthology. Matthew also held a faculty fellowship at the Corey Marsh Ecological Research Center, through which he created programming in environmental humanities, including a community-engaged course in participatory science.

Matthew writes and teaches about the discomfiting overlap of human and natural spaces and the uncanny relationships between these that have emerged in the Anthropocene. His short stories and interviews have been published in New Orleans Review, Bennington Review, Gigantic Worlds, NY Tyrant, West Branch, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. He attended the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference in 2023, and is at work on a novel and a book of short stories.