About

Matthew Dickerson: Manager, editor, feature writer.

Matthew Dickerson is a member of the Outdoor Writers Association of America (and has served on the OWAA board of directors since 2021).

He has written five books about trout, rivers, ecology, and fly-fishing.

Dickerson has also written for several fly-fishing and outdoors magazines including American Fly Fishing (formerly Northwest Fly Fishing and Eastern Fly Fishing), The Drake Backcountry Journal and Gil’s Fly Fishing International. He has also published essays and works of creative non-fiction on nature and ecology (and sometimes fishing) for a number of other magazines and journals  (Written River, Creation Care, Books and Culture, The Other Journal, Middlebury Magazine).  He has been the fishing and outdoors writer for the Addison Independent since 1996, and in 2018 won the New England Newspaper and Press Award for “Best Sports Column of 2017” (in the weekly newspaper division.)

As of 2021, Matthew Dickerson has caught trout on a fly in 31 U.S. states, 3 Canadian provinces, and 2 European countries. He also spent a day fishing in Iowa without catching a fish–and to his dismay has not been able to return since.


Other Contributors 

David O’Hara is the co-author with Matthew Dickerson of Downstream: Reflections on Brook Trout, Fly Fishing, and the Waters of Appalachia, and also co-taught with him in Alaska in the summer of 2015 the classEssay Writing on Nature and Ecology: Alaska and its Char and in 2021 alowed Matthew to co-teach a similar class with him in Alaska.(Dickerson and O’Hara have also co-authored two other books together: From Homer to Harry Potter: a Handbook of Myth and Fantasy and Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: the Environmental Vision of C.S.Lewis, neither of which are about trout or fly fishing, though the latter of the two is very much about ecology, and both are about the importance of narratives.)
Middlebury College undergraduate students Kelly March and Connor Wood (class of 2011), worked with Matthew Dickerson in January of 2009 doing research for Downstream in Tennessee, Georgia, and Vermont.

Middlebury College undergraduate students Robert Seltzer and Gregory Woolston created the maps for Downstream.

Several students from Middlebury College’s Wilson Media Labs have helped with the design and upkeep of this site.

Thanks especially to the Middlebury College students who took Matthew Dickerson’s “Essay Writing on Nature and Ecology” class, taught in Alaska in the summer of 2015 with David O’Hara on “Alaska and its Char”, and taught in January of 2019 partly in Acadia National Park (and focusing on the restoration of alewives and salter brook trout.  You know who you are.