David-Matthew Barnes is the best selling author of twelve novels and several collections of stage plays, poetry, short stories, and monologues. He has written over forty stage plays that have been performed in three languages in eight countries. He is the creator and producer of the teen television series Bloom. His literary work has been featured in over one hundred publications including The Best Stage Scenes, The Best Men’s Stage Monologues, The Best Women’s Stage Monologues, The Comstock Review, and The Southeast Review. He was selected by Kent State University as the national winner of the Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Award. He earned a master of fine arts degree in creative writing at Queens University of Charlotte in North Carolina. He is a faculty member of the brief-residency Master of Arts in Writing program at Spalding University. For more information, please visit davidmatthewbarnes.com.