Matt Kelland

I’ve been a writer for almost forty years.

After a lifetime of writing and editing non-fiction, including newspaper and magazine articles, blog posts, advertising copy, videogame scripts, textbooks, and training manuals, I’m now branching out into the world of storytelling.

I spent my early years in South-West England wanting to be a jazz violinist, an archaeologist or a novelist specializing in retelling ancient myths. Despite spending far too much time riding motorcycles, hanging out with local rock bands, and other pastimes that are probably best left unmentioned, I somehow managed to achieve a moderately good degree in Archaeology and Anthropology from St John’s College, Cambridge.

This led me to a career that took me through journalism, software development, video games, animation, e-book publishing, art curation, teaching, consultancy, and starting multiple businesses with varying degree of success. (It’s all on LinkedIn if you’re really interested in the details.) Somewhere in the middle of all that, I emigrated to the United States, and spent the next ten years living in Florida until it got too hot.

I now live in a house on top of a hill in Maine, surrounded by spruce, birch and pine trees, with my wife Della, and two elderly cats, Yuuki and Samhain. I like to spend as much time in the woods as I can, and would probably run off and be a hermit if there was better Internet, air conditioning, and somewhere warm and dry to spend winter.

On the side, I’ve been studying neuroscience, have recently become a certified NLP practitioner, and I’m a volunteer adult literacy tutor. And I still find time to write (almost) every day.