Matt Riordan grew up in a small town in rural Michigan, on the shore of Lake Huron. He attended high school over the border in Canada, and then Tufts University in Massachusetts. Matt spent much of his early twenties travelling and working as a commercial fisherman in Alaska before drifting through a variety of jobs, including a stint as a White House staffer. Eventually he landed in law school in Indiana. After graduating, Matt was a litigator in New York for twenty years. He drafted much of The North Line, his first novel, while sitting in New York City courtrooms, waiting for his cases to be called. He now lives with his family in Australia.