Matthew Aron is a writer, artist, designer, educator, and lover of typography who lives in Chicago, Illinois, with his amazing wife Johanna, their box turtle Ms. Gertrude Myrtlestein, and a number of freshwater tropical fish. He writes fiction and makes metafictional artist’s books.
By day, Matthew is a mild-mannered pixel-pusher and utility player in the Scholarly Technology group at the University of Chicago. By night, he's an MFA candidate in Interdisciplinary Book & Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago, where he is also teaching the Beginning Bookbinding class for undergraduates this fall.
His MFA thesis project—called The Pirate Echoes—is a set of interconnected books about various forms of piracy and creativity. It will be completed in Spring 2011. For that, he is currently writing, sketching, and scheming.
He is also at work on several additional projects: parlaying his typophilia into his first real type design; working on web sites for a couple of freelance clients; and bringing order to his online presence. The last of those efforts will result in actual content for this very site.