Bio
Matthew Landis is a full-time 8th-9th grade Social Studies teacher at Tamanend Middle School in Bucks County, where he seeks to slay boredom wherever it lurks in his classroom. He is married to an elementary teacher (highly recommended) who’s wisdom helps him balance teaching, writing, and life; without her, he’d have written zero novels instead of five. He won Mississippi’s 2020 Magnolia Book Award and the ILA 2019 Teacher’s Choices Reading List Award. A three-time Junior Library Guild recipient, Matthew’s middle grade novel,”It’s the End of the World as I Know It,” was shortlisted for the Virginia Reader’s Award, the Missouri Truman Reading Award, Oklahoma’s Sequoyah Book Award, and the South Dakota Teen Choice Award. He has four kids, thirty-five chickens, three cats, and loves tacos. He hasn’t slept good since 2015.