Matt Strempel is the co-founder of john+john, a creative agency in Sydney, and Suhm, a contemporary art project celebrating Australian art and design.

He is the author of two novels including The Derailing of Douglas Jones. The IndieBRAG Medallion winner, War of The Sparrows was released in 2021.

Matt lives in the Southern Highlands of NSW with his wife, two children, a couple of mini dachshunds, a ragdoll cat, and two chickens.