Matt Edwards, author of novels Ways and Truths and Lives & Icarus Never Flew 'Round Here, was born and raised in Boise, Idaho, where he developed an affinity for literature: both the challenge of understanding it and the potential to be understood through it. This propelled Matt to study English at Boise State University and devote himself to teaching high school English in the Boise area since 2006. Matt now enjoys sharing his life of passions with his wife and their one and only son. In his free time, if Matt’s not training for marathons, he’s writing fiction and poetry, mostly about gods and fathers and the saviors we find for ourselves.