Born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in nearby Grandview, Matthew has been writing since the mid-90's. His love of poetry specifically and writing in general he credits to his Mother Wanda. Combining poets like Langston Hughes with books like the Encyclopedia Brown series in the stories she read him or he read as a child. His writing plays with the notions of morality and ethics, while providing space for deeper reading into the motivations and flaws of his characters. Utilizing the poetic flourishes of his other works, with the wit and slickness of comfortable everyday speech, his writing style strives to feel familiar with being too simplistic.
