Matthew James Dodson grew up in the Coastal Mountain Range of Western Oregon and graduated from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. He currently is an executive in the grocery industry and lives in South Pasadena, California. He enjoys travelling, fiction writing, hiking in Griffith Park and growing tomatoes and hanging out with his son, Elijah. He is currently working to complete his first novel, Potlatch. The book is a psychedelic noir thriller that Carnival of Fools wrestles with the commodification of the individual in a digital world where reality blurs with the constructed edifice of ones and zeros. The point-of-views are designed to pull the reader into a world of coincidence, anxiety and the pointless, but essential, search for meaning.