Matt Cowens is a high school Media Studies and English teacher. From 1999 to 2000 Matt designed, illustrated and produced card games (Dig, Mob & Cow by Matador Games, with Debbie Cowens). Matt has also written and illustrated terribly silly comics. Recently Matt has written a number of SF short stories and is the co-author of Mansfield with Monsters, a literary mashup of Katherine Mansfield stories with supernatural and science fiction elements. Named as one of the New Zealand Listener's top 100 books of 2012, Mansfield with Monsters has been warmly received by critics and readers.