Matthew Leavitt Brown is a poet, writer, and educator working at the intersection of language, perception, and experience. His work explores the deep structures of communication: how we name our pain, our stories, and ourselves, and how that naming shapes our ability to endure, heal, and belong.

His projects range from immersive public art installations to digital tools designed to help people articulate what is hardest to say. His approach, rooted in both creative and research-driven practice, focuses on the relationship between language and well-being.

Through Lingwell, he is developing a tool that helps people work through distress, offering structured language support to guide internal reflection and external communication. The Iona Initiative brings people into facilitated spaces where writing and shared articulation allow them to process experience. The Center for Linguistic Health is dedicated to exploring the ways language impacts our ability to navigate change, loss, and personal transformation.

Across these outlets, his work is driven by a central belief: that finding the right words for what we carry, be it personal grief, systemic harm, or existential weight, is essential to moving through it.