hey, everyone

I am happy you somehow made it to this page, considering the absurd multitude of forces currently trying to vampire your attention. This is where I house all my creative output, so click along the top of my page to find my books, poems, videos, Lucid Institute, interviews, etc. If you want copies of my out-of-print books - Bring Me My Absolute Surrender, It’s Ok to be Revised, & Maybe We’re Here to Talk to Each Other, email me at matthewsherling@gmail.com, & I’lll send you a PDF. Find my three most recent books here: From Infinity to Personhood, Experiments in Obsession, & Light & Shadow.

history

In 2004, I felt like I woke up in a lucid dream. In 2007, I went deep into the wilderness for the first time & later that year realized I wanted to write poetry. In 2010, I moved to San Francisco to pursue poetry & met a bunch of writers that were funny, bold, & willing to disrupt expectations; they made me want to write better. Since then, I’ve moved back to Georgia, then back to California, then to Colombia, then back to Los Angeles - writing books, cultivating creative community, and practicing an experimentally meaningful life.