Matthew Burgess

Matthew Burgess is the author of several books for kids, including Enormous Smallness: A Story of E. E. Cummings, The Unbudgeable Curmudgeon, and Drawing on Walls: A Story of Keith Haring. He is an assistant profressor of English at Brooklyn College, and he has been teaching poetry in New York City elementary schools for nearly two decades.

From the dust jacket of Bird Boy