Hello! My name is Matthew and I'm a freelance writer and poet.

I co-founded a literary magazine, Glass Buffalo, which published emerging writers. I've written for several magazines, including Avenue Edmonton, Mortar & Pestle, U of A Engineer Magazine, and The Yards. My poetry has appeared in Eighteen Bridges, The New Quarterly, Funicular Magazine, Poetry Is Dead, and my short fiction has appeared on coffee sleeves and beer cans in Edmonton. FIPP named me one of the Top 3 Rising Stars in Media in 2015, and Avenue Edmonton named me one of the Top 40 Under 40 Class of 2019.

My first book—the collaborative novel Project Compass, written with three other authors—was published by Monto Books in Fall 2017. (You can order a copy here.) My poetry chapbook, Relying on that Body, featuring poems inspired by the queens of season 10 of RuPaul's Drag Race, was released through Glass Buffalo Publishing in Summer 2018. (You can order a copy here.) My first play, The 3AM Subtext, premiered at the 2019 Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival.

I am also the co-founder of Glass Bookshop, an independent bookstore that focuses on books by queer and racialized authors.

I have a BA Honours in English from the University of Alberta and am currently based in Edmonton.