Matthew Thayer

Matthew Thayer is a freelance journalist on Maui. He has worked as a professional photojournalist on the island of Maui for 46 years, most of that as a staffer for The Maui News, where he started as a sports writer in 1981 and retired as staff photojournalist in 2024. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee who has won more than 80 awards for his writing and photography. He has also published eight novels, with a ninth, 30,000 B.C. Chronicles: Dover, scheduled for release this summer.