Matt Dellinger is an American journalist and writer who has written for The New Yorker, the Atlantic, the Oxford American, and Smithsonian. He has reported on transportation and planning for the public radio show The Takeaway, and for WNYC’s TransportationNation.org. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. In 2016, he became a Creative and Performing Artist and Writer Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society for research on his second book, about the Brooklyn 14th Regiment, which fought in the Civil War.