Bonnye Matthews, prolific Alaskan author, writes prehistoric fiction. According to Grace Cavalieri, award-winning poet/playwright, book reviewer, and host of The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress, "Matthews is America’s pre-eminent author of prehistoric fiction." According to George F. Steiner, Quaternary Geology and Pleistocene Cognitive Archaeology expert, “Her stories are fascinating and the science behind them is cutting edge.” The novel series focus is the peopling of the Americas and the novella series looks at very old individual archaeological sites. In the works is a chapter book for middle graders, Arctic Dinosaurs of Alaska: One Year.