Matthew Burgess is the author of eight children's books: Enormous Smallness: A Story of E. E. Cummings (Enchanted Lion Books), The Unbudgeable Curmudgeon (Knopf), Drawing on Walls: A Story of Keith Haring (ELB), The Bear and The Moon (Chronicle), Bird Boy (Knopf), Make Meatballs Sing: The Life & Art of Corita Kent (ELB), The Red Tin Box (Chronicle), and Sylvester’s Letter (ELB). Matthew edited an anthology of visual art and writing titled Dream Closet: Meditations on Childhood Space (Secretary Press), as well as a collection of essays titled Spellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry (TWC). More books are forthcoming, including: As Edward Imagined: A Story of Edward Gorey (Knopf, 2024), The Purple One: A Story of Prince (ELB, 2024), Words With Wings and Magic Things (Tundra, 2025), and Fireworks (Harper Collins, 2024). An Associate Professor at Brooklyn College, Matthew has been a poet-in-residence in New York City public schools and currently serves as a contributing editor of Teachers & Writers Magazine.