Matthew Cook

Matthew Cook is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. As many Fine Arts graduates do, he took a normal, respectable job, one good for paying the bills but terrible at nourishing the soul. He spent several years trying to keep his illustration, digital graphics and photography skills sharp, even resorting to wedding photography when things were truly dire. More than ten years later, he was still no closer to making anything resembling a living in the visual arts, so he turned to his other great love: literature.

His first novel, Blood Magic, was published by Juno Books in September of 2007. Matt lives and works in Columbus, Ohio, where he shares his home with a son, a daughter, a wiener-dog and a talking African Gray parrot.