Matthew Erickson is a true-blue graduate of Utah State University (the home of the Mighty
Aggies, the Spot Where the Sagebrush Grows) and the University of Maine School of
Law. He has worked as a migrant farm worker, a janitor, a truck driver, a sailing instructor, and a
stained glass artist, though not recently. He was the lead singer and songwriter in a very popular
local punk/salsa band, The Freedo Lays, which performed in the Craftsbury, Vermont area in the
late 80's. Matt generally knows what knot to use, and how to tie it.
His legal experience includes stints at Shaw, Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge in Washington DC,
the Cumberland County District Attorney’s Office in Portland Maine, the Maine Attorney
General’s Maine Drug Task Force, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maine, and he is
currently the Tribal Prosecutor for the Penobscot Nation.
He was selected as Time Magazine’s Person of the Year in 2006. In 1991, Saddam Hussein
repeatedly tried to kill him with Scud missiles but failed every time. Matt is the author of the
short story Haircut from Hell, he coined the term “nutrilicious”, and he almost never uses
matches to start a fire. He lives in Bucksport, Maine with his wife and two of his six children.