“I am a writer working at the intersection of culture, politics, history, and interior reflection. I was the founder of modpol.com, one of the first digital publications to seriously braid politics and pop culture, helping shape a style of writing that treated cultural artifacts as civic evidence. My work favors long arcs and human-scale insight, moving deliberately through ideas rather than racing to conclusions.

Over the past decade, I have published more than a dozen digital books through Amazon KDP, ranging from cultural criticism to hybrid nonfiction that resists tidy genre labels. My essays and longer works draw on music, technology, global history, and Midwestern daily life, often circling questions of power, memory, and meaning. I also write on Substack at matthewhnewell, where my ongoing essays extend this same exploratory, reflective approach in serialized form.

I am currently completing a forthcoming hardback book, Enter the 37th Chamber, an ambitious project that weaves personal memory with geopolitical and cultural history. I live in Bloomington, Illinois, where I write and raise my daughter, grounded in the Midwest while keeping one eye trained on the wider world.”