Matt Burch is a writer of all stripes, from fiction to screenplays to film reviews to website content and beyond. Originally from Virginia, he bided his time 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, his grassy suburban backyard lot for the broken glass covered sidewalks and alleyways of Manhattan’s East Village.
After exhausting all of his graduation money on the neo-noir short film, The Recipe for Cruelty, Matt turned his attentions exclusively to screenwriting…a creative endeavor he could execute 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: a few rewrite jobs, a handful of for-hire scripts and a whole lot of “Development Hell.” Homesick for the East Coast and less ephemeral projects in general, Matt moved back to Brooklyn and began focusing on short stories and long fiction. He published his first novel, pH Zero, in January of 2018 and recently released his second, Couch Life, in June of 2019. In addition to his literary pursuits, Matt freelances as a copywriter, editor, proofreader, and educational content writer.
