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Matthew Dicks is an American author, columnist, blogger, podcaster, playwright, and teacher. He is the author of the novels Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, Something Missing, Unexpectedly Milo, The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs, Twenty-One Truths About Love, and The Other Mother. He is also the author of the nonfiction book Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling. Dicks has been teaching for 23 years and is a former West Hartford Teacher of the Year and a finalist for Connecticut Teacher of the Year. He is a record 58-time Moth StorySLAM champion and 9-time GrandSLAM champion whose stories have been featured on their nationally syndicated Moth Radio Hour and their weekly podcast. Dicks is also the co-founder and Artistic Director of Speak Up, a Hartford-based storytelling organization that produces shows throughout New England.

Here are some additional details about Matthew Dicks:

* He was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, in 1971.
* He graduated from the University of Connecticut in 1993 with a degree in English.
* He began teaching in 1994 and has taught at a variety of schools in Connecticut.
* He began writing in 2008 and published his first novel, Something Missing, in 2009.
* He has since published seven more novels and one nonfiction book.
* He is a regular contributor to The Moth podcast and has been featured on their radio show several times.
* He is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Speak Up, a storytelling organization that produces shows throughout New England.
* He lives in West Hartford, Connecticut, with his wife and two children.