About Matt

Matt Burch is a writer of all stripes, from fiction to screenplays to film reviews and beyond. Originally from Virginia, he spent his days as a suburban youngster concocting wild short stories, shooting backyard epics on VHS, and pedaling his BMX bicycle to the local video store for weekly inspiration. At the tender age of 18, he escaped north to New York City and enrolled in the Film & TV Production program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Here, he promptly exchanged his VHS camera for a 16mm Arriflex and his grassy suburban backyard lot for the graffitied sidewalks of Manhattan’s East Village.

After exhausting all of his graduation money and credit card balance on the neo-noir short film The Recipe for Cruelty, Matt turned his attentions exclusively to screenwriting, a creative endeavor he could pursue while incurring considerably less debt. Several years and a few feature-length scripts later, some of his work began to attract industry attention. He optioned his dark comedy The Second Samson to a small, independent NYC production company, then sold his gritty crime drama The Upgrade to Miramax Films. The time for an obligatory move to Los Angeles had arrived!

Six years of ups and downs in Tinseltown soon followed. Homesick for the East Coast, Matt moved back to Brooklyn in the early 2010s and began focusing on short stories and long fiction. He published his first novel, pH Zero, in January of 2018 and his second, Couch Life, in June of 2019. Currently, he is working on a nonfiction book about the 1990s neo-noir renaissance in American film. In addition to his literary and filmic endeavors, Matt also freelances as a copywriter, legal writer, editor, and proofreader.