Matt Ortile on Travel Writing

Matt Ortile joins host Brian Gresko to discuss travel, writing, travel writing, and literary life in Paris.

Ortile is an editor and writer who has taught creative writing seminars for the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, Tin House, Kundiman, Poets & Writers, PEN America, and elsewhere. He is the author of the essay collection The Groom Will Keep His Name and a co-editor of the essay anthology Body Language: Writers on Identity, Physicality, and Making Space for Ourselves. He is also an editor for print and digital at Condé Nast Traveler, and was previously the executive editor of the literary magazine Catapult prior to its closure.

Matt has two classes with Writing Co-Lab coming up, Fall 2026: Reading Paris and The Art of Travel Writing–How to Read, and Write, for Travel Magazines.

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