Matthew Dicks
Author of Storyworthy; novelist, Moth storyteller and elementary school teacher.
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- Matthew Dicks (born 15 February 1971) is an American writer, storyteller and elementary school teacher.
- He has taught at Henry A.
- Wolcott School in West Hartford, Connecticut, from 1999, and has written novels including Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend (2012) and nonfiction including Storyworthy (2018), a book on storytelling.
- He is a record 64-time winner of The Moth's StorySLAM and a 10-time GrandSLAM champion, co-founded the Hartford storytelling organisation Speak Up in 2013, and teaches storytelling and public speaking to companies and universities.
Key facts
- Born
- 15 February 1971; raised in Blackstone, Massachusetts1
- Teaching
- Elementary school teacher at Henry A. Wolcott School, West Hartford, from 1999; West Hartford Teacher of the Year 20051
- Novels
- Something Missing (2009), Unexpectedly, Milo (2010), Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend (2012), The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs (2014), Twenty-one Truths About Love (2019), The Other Mother (2020)1
- Nonfiction
- Storyworthy (2018), Someday Is Today (2022), Stories Sell1
- The Moth
- 64-time StorySLAM winner and 10-time GrandSLAM champion1
- Speak Up
- Co-founded with Elysha Dicks in 20131
- Teaches storytelling
- At Yale, MIT, Harvard and Purdue, and at Amazon, Salesforce, Slack and Lego2
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