Matthew Abergel loves stories and storytelling, especially when they're true and pertain to the past, and how the past shaped the present. He hates bios and tooting his own horn.

He loves his family, his husband, their dog, and his overgrown herb garden. He asks too many questions and falls down rabbit holes of research.

In grad school, he didn't learn much, but he did learn how to think critically, a craft as quaint as hand-dipping candles. He's had books published and plays produced -- probably nothing you've heard of.

Rarely has he felt anything he wrote mattered, but with his play Queer Spirits and his first podcast, The Magician of Casablanca, he thinks maybe they do matter, not because he wrote them but because the stories deserve to be shared. 

He lives in the urban forest of Sacramento and seems to have finally reached a modus vivendi with the dive-bombing crows.  

The podcast The Magician of Casablanca: A Sephardic Woman's Quest to Save Lives in WW2 was entirely recorded and produced by Mark Johnston at his recording studio in Sacramento, California: Constellation Audio.