
Matthew Murphy was born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario, and now lives in Montreal. Margaret Atwood deemed his debut novel, A Beckoning War (Baraka Books, 2016), a "creditable first novel", and Quill & Quire praised it as "the product of an amazing new talent". In addition, his novella "Tio" will appear in the upcoming anthology Green to Grey: An Environmental Anthology, in April 2025 courtesy of Guernica Editions.