About

Matt Soberg is the business education teacher at Pillager Public Schools in Pillager, Minnesota. He has followed a life-long dream to help support a great rural community through teaching life and work experiences and coaching youth sports. He is coaching junior high football, basketball, and baseball with a group of players that have extreme potential for the future. He enjoys the ability to watch his son Liam grow up in a great community and fantastic school each and every day.

He was the editor of Covey Rise magazine—the premier publication based in Alexander City, Alabama, that celebrates our upland-hunting lifestyle worldwide through the pens of established writers and the lenses of professional photographers.

Matt previously served as the director of communications and magazine editor for the Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society, headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—the nation’s leaders in forest conservation. The Ruffed Grouse Society magazine won numerous publishing awards, including three Grand APEX Awards—top 3 percentile among all magazine entries—in 2014, 2015, and 2016.

After practicing law for eight years, Matt started the Minnesota Sporting Journal—a magazine that featured hunting, fishing, and conservation in his home state. He graduated from the William Mitchell College of Law in 2005, was named one of 20 Up and Coming Attorneys in 2007 by Finance and Commerce magazine, and became partner of the Krekelberg, Skonseng, & Soberg law firm in Pelican Rapids, Minnesota.

Matt freelances for multiple magazines, including Covey Rise, Pheasants Forever Journal, Upland Almanac, Lake Country Journal, Whitetales Magazine, and the Ruffed Grouse Society magazine. He is a member of the Professional Outdoor Media Association, Outdoor Writers Association of America, Association of Great Lakes Outdoor Writers, and multiple conservation organizations. In 2014, he received the President’s Award from the OWAA for his feature “A Huckleberry Grouse Tale” from the Ruffed Grouse Society magazine—chosen as the best magazine article of the year.

Matt was born and raised in Central Minnesota, having learned the traditions of the woods and waters from his grandfathers and father before him. He currently resides in the lakes area of Brainerd, Minnesota, and when not in school, you will find him showing his young son the ways of the Northwoods with his English setters.