Hello! My name is Matthew and I'm a freelance writer and poet. I’m currently based on Treaty 6 territory in Edmonton.

I edit and design chapbooks for Agatha Press, which publishes poetry, essays, short stories, plays, and a few surprises in small runs on a risograph printer. I host VERS/E, a queer poetry open mic at Felice Cafe on the first Wednesday of every month from September through April.

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 co-founded and managed a literary magazine, Glass Buffalo (2012-20), which published emerging writers from the University of Alberta. I also co-founded and managed Glass Bookshop (2018-24), which was an independent bookstore that focused on books by queer and racialized authors. I've written for several magazines, and my poetry has appeared in Eighteen Bridges, The New Quarterly, Funicular Magazine, Poetry Is Dead, FreeFall, Plenitude, and others, 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.