Matt Yocum is a retired colonel from the U.S. Air Force. His recent assignments included serving as the Air Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan and as the Director of the Commander’s Action Group for U.S. Central Command. He also served as the Director of Strategic Plans, Policy, and Futures at the Joint Special Operations Command.
Matt is an award-winning author whose writing covers the literary map, from technical engineering articles to science fiction and thriller novels to short stories. Most notably, Matt has written several stories for Marvel Comics, the publisher of such characters as Spider-Man, Iron Man, and Captain America. He also has several independent comic book projects in development.
Born in 1971, Matt lived in Kentucky until he was 17. At this time he entered the Air Force, becoming a cadet at the U.S. Air Force Academy.
Matt was commissioned as a second lieutenant and received a B.S. in engineering science from the Academy in June 1993. In December 1994, Matt received a Master of Science in aeronautical engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology.
Matt's military assignments have taken him around the country and the world. Other positions he's held are Assistant Professor of engineering mechanics at the Air Force Academy and the Assistant Air Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel.
When not writing, Matt often spends time reading, exercising, working at his local church, and spending time with his wife and twin sons, where they live among the pines in North Carolina.