Matt Pelicano was born and raised in Upstate New York. He is the youngest of eight kids. From his youth, Matt has always loved the poetry of E.E. Cummings, Shel Silverstein, TS Eliot, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, and William Shakespeare. His literary heroes include JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, Oscar Wilde, Agatha Christie and David McCullough. At age 10, he pulled an old guitar out of the trash, taught himself to play, and soon began writing lyrics, songs, poetry, short stories and books. A widower, Matt has three children, Andy, Joey and Megan, and lives in Greenville, SC with his family of three people, five cats and one dog. Visit Matt online at: www.MattPelicano.com.
