Matthew John Michaels is a British science fiction author and the creator of The Orphans, a YA military sci-fi series about a group of psychic teen soldiers raised to fight the wars of tomorrow.

He grew up in Birmingham, England, on a diet of Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, and Babylon 5 and never quite got over it. A voracious reader, lifelong gamer, and a man who has never once looked past the steak on a menu, Matthew writes stories about extraordinary people facing impossible choices, strange worlds, and the consequences of discovering that reality is rather larger than they thought.

He was once accused of being a ghost. He neither confirms nor denies this.

The Orphans is his debut series.