Whitney Matheson (born April 21, 1977 in Fredericksburg, Virginia) is a pop culture writer.

Matheson earned a journalism degree from the University of Tennessee in 1999, and joined USA Today and created Pop Candy that same year.

[1] Pop Candy began as a weekly online pop-culture column that covered television, movies, comic books, and music.

[1] On May 13, 2019, Matheson unveiled her digital children's book We Make Comics, illustrated by Genevieve Kote.

On her Pop Candy blog dated April 13, 2012, Matheson announced she and her husband Rhyne Piggott were expecting their first child.