Matthew Benoit

Emerging from the womb wearing nothing but a pair of black frame, coke bottle lens glasses, Matthew Benoit's destiny was certain to be in the rigid, field of engineering. Three published poems and thirty five years later he at last throws off the left-handed engineering yoke and tries his right hand at a novel, Whackers.

Matt currently resides in Colorado with his wife and two French cats. He is presently in his seventh year of contract engineering work and twentieth year of writing.

After 20 years of writing I finally published my first novel Whackers. Whackers is an edgy, different story about men and women and their awkward quest to relate to each other. I like different, edgy stories and try to write the same. I don't like reading the same story over and over again which seems to prevade the fiction marketplace. My influences are Tom Robbins, Woody Allen, John Irving, Richard Russo, and Anne Tyler. Authors who are willing to take a chance, write something original, and most of all show how humorous our toils and tribulations of everyday life can be.