https://www.mattortile.com/about daily 0.75 2025-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ece03c60927ae2fd86302b0/1590730658597-0GQ8AJU3M400WSZD7EXR/ortile+in+paris Bio https://www.mattortile.com/contact daily 0.75 2024-12-22 https://www.mattortile.com/groom daily 1.0 2025-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ece03c60927ae2fd86302b0/1590718374254-KE0RSAC74EWOV0R60ADR/image-asset.jpeg The Groom Will Keep His Name - “At Filipino weddings, the grooms wear white.” The Groom Will Keep His Name is an essay collection about sex, power, and the myths of American society. BuzzFeed called the book “witty and insightful.” Oprah said it’s one of many queer books that are “changing the literary landscape in 2020.” My ex-boyfriends asked, “Am I in it?” Read it to find out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ece03c60927ae2fd86302b0/1590728643592-AMOIYGPCYJYI2QX01ALC/image-asset.png The Groom Will Keep His Name - It’s pronounced “or-TEE-lay.” And here’s my standard third-person bio: Matt Ortile is the author of the essay collection The Groom Will Keep His Name and the co-editor of the nonfiction anthology Body Language. He is an editor at Condé Nast Traveler, and was previously the executive editor of Catapult magazine and the founding editor of BuzzFeed Philippines. He has written for Esquire, Vogue, Out, Self, BuzzFeed News, and elsewhere; has received fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and MacDowell; and has taught creative writing classes at Kundiman, PEN America, and the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. He is a graduate of Vassar College, which means he now lives in Brooklyn, where he is working on a new memoir. https://www.mattortile.com/fundraiser daily 0.75 2020-05-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ece03c60927ae2fd86302b0/1590811865175-ELQ2XWQ1M03FS1DM4T1H/groom+giveaway Fundraiser https://www.mattortile.com/classes daily 0.75 2023-03-22 https://www.mattortile.com/classes/classes monthly 0.5 2025-08-10 https://www.mattortile.com/classes/p/how-to-pitch-essays-for-publication monthly 0.5 2025-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ece03c60927ae2fd86302b0/2e2ee0c9-8f68-4686-9d44-eae4c49e6d01/oleg-laptev-QRKJwE6yfJo-unsplash.jpg Writing Classes and Consultations - How to Pitch Your Work to Magazines — Saturday, December 6