Matt Halvorson is a musician, writer, communications consultant and abolitionist who has been described as "a new-age storyteller with seemingly never-ending tales to tell." Nice, huh?
Matt releases music as Cousin Wolf, and he works as a freelance writer, editor and communications consultant.
Matt also continues to manage a blog he founded called Rise Up for Students, which advocates for equity and radical empathy in education. And he spends a lot of time at home with his kids. Like, a lot a lot.
Matt has been quoted or featured in Seattle Magazine, Seattle’s Child magazine, Seattle Weekly, The Stranger, The Seattle Times, NorthWest Music Scene, the South Seattle Emerald, and others as an extension of his writing and activism.
The current Cousin Wolf project, “Nine Innings,” is a collection of nine songs about nine baseball players. The songs are “nuanced, exploring the gray in a game that is often black and white and the players labeled heroes or bums.” With seven singles out now, stay tuned for the full album release coming soon.
In 2019, Matt wrote and released a song a week as part of the Rise Up Music Project, a daily podcast he founded that shared a new song every day with insights into artists’ ongoing creative processes. The Rise Up Music Project now lives on as a tiny little co-op record label.
Matt’s previous work experience also includes communications with the Northwest Credit Union Association, direct service with the “I Have a Dream” Foundation, and years of work in baseball with the Atlanta Braves, Memphis Redbirds, Sioux Falls Canaries, and Sports Info Solutions.
Matt was born in St. Paul, grew up in Fargo, and now lives off-grid in the forest near Seattle with his partner, Lindsay, and their kids. He enjoys drinking coffee, playing catch, sitting around campfires, and plotting to bring down The System.
