Brad Matsen Biography

Brad Matsen is the author of "Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss," "Titanic’s Last Secrets," and "Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King," among many other books about the sea and its inhabitants. He was a creative producer and writer for the Sea Studios/National Geographic television series, "The Shape of Life" on evolutionary biology, and "The Land is Ours" on the Native American civil rights movement in Alaska.

Matsen’s articles on marine science and the environment have appeared in Mother Jones, Audubon, and Natural History, among other publications. His magazine package in "Mother Jones" earned the the Censored Project’s highest honors in 1994. Matsen has twice been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, was a finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for his book, "Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss," and won many other awards for his work. He received a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the University of California at Irvine where he was a University Fellow in fiction. Matsen has also been a charter pilot, commercial fisherman, and merchant seaman, spending most of his life in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.

Matsen frequently speaks at venues across the country and abroad including the International Festival of Underwater Images in Antibes, the Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History, and the Prologue Society of South Florida. He has also made appearances at The American Museum of Natural History, The California Academy of Sciences, and at the Authors@Google speaking series.

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