Matthew L. Moseley is a communication strategist, author, speaker, and world-record adventure swimmer. He has spent his career at the intersection of public policy, business, and government and has managed many public affairs projects and campaigns for organizations and companies. 

He works with organizations such at the Upper Colorado River Commission, the Water and Tribes Initiative, American Rivers, the Colorado Water Trust, the Colorado River District, the Getches Wilkinson Center and others. He is the author of four books.

He has completed five first-ever record adventure swims and is the subject of the documentary, Dancing in the Water about his 25-mile swim across Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans. The short film Silent River documented his 40 mile swim down the Green River in the Colorado Basin. 

He serves on the President’s National Council for American Rivers and is member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Leadership at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Words on Water, the definitive collection of quotes about water, contains over 400 quotes from 200 sources spanning time and culture, including:

T. S. Eliot, Bruce Lee, Lord Byron, Aristotle, Beyonce, Wallace Stegner, Mark Twain, Maya Angelou, David Getches, Terry Tempest Williams, Henry David Thoreau, Billy Strings, Aldo Leopold, Edward Abbey, and many others.

In his Foreword, writer and naturalist Craig Childs declares, “Matthew Moseley has gathered voices that if you listen page by page and flutter them through your hands, you should be able to hear something like a creek flowing over pebbles.”

With an Afterword by Michael Fiebig of the conservation organization American Rivers.