Matthew Holm is an accomplished writer, artist, and Web developer.

For eight years, he was an editor at the Hearst Corporation’s 1.6 million-circulation Country Living Magazine, where he wrote about topics ranging from home-building, architecture, and historic preservation to food, travel, and current events. His freelance work has included a great deal of science writing, making the research of Ph.D.’s accessible to a lay audience.

Matt is also a professional children’s book illustrator, and is active in the children’s literature and reading education communities. He and his sister, Jennifer, are the co-creators of the award-winning, critically acclaimed Babymouse graphic novels (published by Random House), which have sold some 1.5 million copies. The latest volume in the series (the 15th) is A Very Babymouse Christmas. Matt and Jenni are also the creators of a second graphic novel series for the elementary-age set, called Squish. The latest title is Squish: Brave New Pond.

Matt also spends time working in the online world, as the Consulting Creative Director for Hot Knife Design, Inc., of Boston, Mass. At Hot Knife, Matt works as a business consultant and helps develop user interfaces. He also builds Web sites with CMS software such as ExpressionEngine. Matt acts as a copy writer and an information architect as needed, using his writing and editing skills to organize the structure and content of clients’ Web sites in the most clear, logical, and approachable manner possible, and employing his considerable talents as an illustrator to craft wireframes and paper prototypes to aid in the design, testing, and building of Web sites.

From 2008 to 2011, Matt was the Vice Chair of the Computer-Human Interaction Forum of Oregon (CHIFOO, the Oregon chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction). He currently serves on the CHIFOO Executive Council as Secretary.

Matt moved to Portland from New York’s Hudson Valley in early 2007. He currently lives in Northeast Portland, with his wife and dog.