Matthew Wolfe's writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, The New Republic, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and The Atavist. He was previously a national fellow at New America and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at New York University's Institute for Public Knowledge. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York. 

His first book, a narrative nonfiction account of The Earth Liberation Front, Fires In The Night, will be published by Viking Press in June 2026.