Dr. Matthew Huddleston enjoys occasional research projects in magnetospheric space physics, but is primarily a teacher and communicator at heart. The topics of his classroom lectures often become inspirations for stories, and he believes that the science of the real world contains more wonder and mystery than anything he could invent as an author. When not creating science fiction stories, Dr. Huddleston can be found at his "day job" at Trevecca University in Nashville, TN, where he has instructed and mentored undergraduates for almost two decades.
Dr. Huddleston spent most of his childhood in a small jungle village in the Democratic Republic of Congo while his father worked as a linguist to develop a writing system for the language of the Bali people. Returning to the US, he received a Masters in space physics and astronomy from Rice University before moving to Nashville to finish up his Ph.D. in physics at Vanderbilt.
In addition to writing and teaching, he is also a hopeless wanderer, having traveled to over forty different countries.
