Author Bio: Matt Lake

Matt Lake regained consciousness in the back of an ambulance
with his head strapped down. He was unable to speak, but from
the way the paramedics were speaking, he could tell he was
somewhere in the northeastern United States. How did he get
there from his native England? And why were paramedics giving
him oxygen? Only they knew.

Matt is a freelance writer and editor at the time, and so he is
used to having no idea what is going on. But his next editing
project made the whole experience clear. He was given the first
draft of Weird NJ (The Book) to edit. After that, the earliest
manuscript of Weird U.S. crossed his desk. Suddenly it all made
sense. Weirdness was everywhere, especially, he thought, in the
state he lived in. Within months, Matt found himself in a disused
parking lot near an abandoned factory, where Mark Sceurman and
Mark Moran handed him his next assignment: Weird Pennsylvania.
A year later came Weird Maryland. Matt's name has appeared in a
lot of publications, some of which (like the New York Times) are
only marginally weird. There's a whole lot of weirdness in the world,
and Matt is making it his aim to find as much of it as possible.