David-Matthew Barnes is the award-winning author of the novels Mesmerized, Accidents Never Happen, Swimming to Chicago, The Jetsetters, Ambrosia, and Wonderland. He is the writer and director of the films Frozen Stars and Made From Scratch. To date, he has written over forty stage plays that have been performed in three languages in eight countries. 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, Review Americana, and The Southeast Review. David-Matthew was selected as the national winner of the 2011 Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Award. In addition, he has received the Carrie McCray Literary Award, the Slam Boston Award for Best Play, and earned double awards for poetry and playwriting in the World AIDS Day Writing Contest. He received a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Queens University of Charlotte in North Carolina. David-Matthew is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and is on the faculty of the Spalding University brief-residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program.