Matthew Stillman

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Matthew Stillman

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Matthew Stillman is a born and bred New Yorker. With the exception of college he has always lived in Manhattan. After scoring a BA in Comparative Literature from SUNY Geneseo, he g...view moreMatthew Stillman is a born and bred New Yorker. With the exception of college he has always lived in Manhattan. After scoring a BA in Comparative Literature from SUNY Geneseo, he got into programming at Food Network and developed shows like Iron Chef, Good Eats and many, many others. He also started improvising with the Upright Citizens Brigade shortly after they first arrived in New York, and he still does. "The End of Poverty?" was his first film. He conceived of it, wrote the first treatment, co-produced it and spoke at the UN four times about it after it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and went to 40 festivals around the world. After a lifetime of a making out with literature, inner spiritual work from different traditions, creativity and play. He has written "Genesis Deflowered". It is his first full length book. And, of course, he started with a genre that he may well have just made up - Biblical Erotica written in Elizabethan English. He is married to an exceptional woman from Sheffield in the North of England. He blogs at stillmansays.com where he writes about his ongoing creativity experiment in Union Square. and you can find him on twitter at @stillmansaysview less