Mattathias Schwartz is a journalist who writes on U.S. national security, foreign policy, and the use and abuse of state power. He worked on a survey of the U.S. intelligence community from 9/11 on and developed a proposal for his first book. He has written several profiles of senior officials, including William Barr, John Brennan, James Clapper, and Mike Pompeo. "The Trolls Among Us," the first New York Times article to note the existence of 4chan, has been cited by hundreds of books and academic articles, as well as Merriam-Webster's definition of the word "troll." His investigation of the extradition of Christopher Coke from Kingston, Jamaica, won the Livingston Award for international reporting.
At MacDowell, he drafted two new short fictional stories, worked through edits on two nonfiction feature stories, one for the New Yorker and another for the New York Times Magazine. He also began preliminary reporting for a magazine profile of John O. Brennan, the director of the CIA.
