Matthew Dicks

Place: Blackstone

Born: 1971

Biography:

Matthew Dicks (born February 15, 1971) is an American novelist, storyteller, columnist, playwright, blogger, and teacher. His first novel, Something Missing, was published in 2009. He has since published Unexpectedly, Milo (2010), Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend (2012), The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs (2014), Twenty-one Truths About Love (2019), and The Other Mother (2020). Dicks' novels have been translated into 26 different languages. He publishes in the UK under the pseudonym Matthew Green. Dicks has also published two books of nonfiction: Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling (2018) and Someday Is Today: 22 Simple, Actionable Ways to Propel Your Creative Life (2022). Dicks is the humor columnist for Seasons magazine and writes the Ask a Teacher column for Slate magazine. His work has also appeared in The Hartford Courant, Reader's Digest, Parents magazine and The Christian Science Monitor. He is the creator and cohost of the weekly podcasts Speak Up Storytelling and Boy vs. Girl.