Author, single father, and entrepreneur, Matthew S. Field is a native of St. Louis, Missouri. After climbing the “corporate ladder” with a series of Fortune 100 companies, Matt and his wife, Lori, and two daughters moved to New York’s Hudson Valley. Within the year, the family learned two pieces of life-changing news: they were expecting their third child, a son, and Lori was diagnosed with advanced, occult metastatic breast cancer. Their son was born in 2004, and after making a career change, Matt Field’s first title, Father Like a Tree, was released one year later. However, Lori succumbed to her illness early in 2005 and did not see the completed work. Now healing,… and a stay-at-home dad to his three children, Field speaks professionally and provides reading and writing workshops to schools and libraries. In addition to Father Like a Tree, Field’s credits include the illustrated children’s book, The Three Pigs, Business School, and Wolfe Hash Stew and the mainstream fiction novel, The Dream Seeker. The Single Father’s Cookbook is his first nonfiction book.