Matt Weiland is a senior editor at W.W. Norton & Company, the independent and employee-owned general interest publisher in New York. Writers he edits at Norton include André Aciman, Blake Bailey, Philip Connors, John Lanchester, Richard Mabey, Stephin Merritt & Maira Kalman, New York Times reporter John Branch, New Yorker copyeditor Mary Norris, Tim Parks, Joe Sacco, and Wesley Yang.

    Weiland has previously worked as an editor at Ecco, Granta Books, The New Press, and Columbia University Press, as well as at three literary magazines—Granta, The Paris Review, and The Baffler. He and Eugenia Bell founded their own imprint, Bell & Weiland Books, to publish Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Mike Wallace’s A New Deal for New York in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. And he served as project director for American RadioWorks, the documentary radio unit of NPR and Minnesota Public Radio.

    Weiland is the co-editor of three bestselling books: State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America, co-edited with Sean Wilsey, was inspired by the WPA State Guide series of the 1930s and featured original pieces on all 50 states by 50 leading writers; The Thinking Fan’s Guide to the World Cup, also co-edited with Sean Wilsey, featured original pieces on the 32 nations participating in the World Cup by 32 leading writers; and Commodify Your Dissent: The Business of Culture in the New Gilded Age, co-edited with Thomas Frank, was the first anthology from the literary magazine The Baffler.

        Weiland’s essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, New York Magazine, the New York Observer, Slate, The New Republic, and The Nation. He also wrote the introduction to the NYRB Classics reissue of George Rippey Stewart’s Names on the Land, the classic account of how pretty much everything in America got its name.

      Weiland is a member of the National Book Critics Circle, the Brooklyn Book Festival’s literary council, and the Visiting Committee for Literary and Historical Manuscripts of the Morgan Library & Museum. He is also a member of the U.S. Writers World Cup soccer team, which has yet to play a game.

        Originally from Minneapolis, Matt Weiland lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.