STORY

Matthew LeDrew has written over twenty novels, some of which have gone on to become Canadian and international bestsellers.

Since 2007 he has traveled all over Canada promoting his work as well as teaching seminars on writing and publishing.

He currently holds a Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant and an ArtsNL Professional Projects Grant for the completion of his first two Newfoundland-set novels, a treasure-hunt novel and a literary fiction novel exploring toxicity within the Newfoundland arts scene, respectively.

He holds an Honours Degree in English from the Memorial University of Newfoundland with a minor in Anthropology. He studied Journalism at College of the North Atlantic in Stephenville, Newfoundland. He has worked with Transcontinental Publishing as well as student-youth magazine The Troubadour.

He has been called "the face of Newfoundland genre writing" and is one of the most successful authors working and living in his province today.