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Matt Strempel

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Matt is the author of two novels, War of the Sparrows (2021) and The Derailing of Douglas Jones (2024). In October of 2024, he won the Grand Prize in the 93rd Writer’s Digest Annual Writing Competition for his short story, ‘Botched’.

While not writing fiction, Matt Strempel is the co-founder of john+john, a creative agency in Sydney. He lives in the Southern Highlands of NSW with his wife, two children, and a menagerie of pets including two mini dachshunds, a ragdoll cat and chickens.

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