Matthew T. Dickerson

Matthew Dickerson is the author of numerous works of fiction and non-fiction. He has published a three-volume epic fantasy novel collectively titled "The Daegmon War". The three individual volumes are titled "The Gifted", "The Betrayed", and "Illengond." He has also published two recent works of narrative non-fiction exploring nature, trout, fly-fishing, friendship, family, and philosophy... but mostly trout and rivers. They are titled "Downstream: Reflections on Brook Trout, Fly Fishing, and the Waters of Appalachia" (with David O'Hara) and "Trout in the Desert: on Fly Fishing, Human Habits, and the Cold Waters of the Arid Southwest." Dickerson first book, a medieval historical novel titled The Finnsburg Encounter, was published in 1991. A sequel to that novel titled The Rood and the Torc was published in the start of 2014. In between he has published books about J.R.R.Tolkien, C.S.Lewis, and fantasy literature as well as a biography of singer-songwriter Mark Heard. He is especially interested in ecological/environmental aspects of the works of Lewis and Tolkien. He was born in Massachusetts and has resided or attended college or university in New Hampshire, Maine, New York, and most recently Vermont where he teaches at Middlebury College. He was the director for 12 years of the New England Young Writers Conference at Breadloaf and is a member of the Outdoor Writers Association of America.