Matthew Dickerson

Matthew Dickerson was a June 2017 artist-in-residence at Glacier National Park and a May 2018 artist-in-residence at Acadia National Park. He is the author of several works of fiction and creative non-fiction, as well as literary explorations of mythopoeic literature with a particular focus on environmental aspects of the writings of J.R.R.Tolkien and C.S.Lewis. His previous narrative non-fiction nature writing includes several books about rivers and the trout that dwell in them: Downstream...See more

Matthew Dickerson was a June 2017 artist-in-residence at Glacier National Park and a May 2018 artist-in-residence at Acadia National Park. He is the author of several works of fiction and creative non-fiction, as well as literary explorations of mythopoeic literature with a particular focus on environmental aspects of the writings of J.R.R.Tolkien and C.S.Lewis. His previous narrative non-fiction nature writing includes several books about rivers and the trout that dwell in them: Downstream and Trout in the Desert . His most recent novel is a work of medieval historical fiction titled The Rood and the Torc, set in 7th-Century Europe and inspired by a fragment of the medieval poem Beowulf . He is also the co-author of Ents, Elves, and Eriador: the Environmental Vision of J.R.R.Tolkien , Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: the Environmental Vision of C.S.Lewis , and From Homer to Harry Potter: a Handbook of Myth and Fantasy. Dickerson is a professor at Middlebury College in Vermont where he has had affiliations with the Computer Science Department, Environmental Studies Program, Writing Program, and the New England Young Writers Conference at Bread Loaf. See less