Matthew Fox has worked in the non-profit sector for more than a decade, focusing on the Arts, LGBTQ issues, and the Environment. He co-created and programmed the Outsiders LGBTQ Film Festival in Liverpool, and his short films have screened at LGBTQ film festivals all over the world. He has also served on LGBTQ juries at Berlinale and Outfest.

Career high-points from this period include interviewing AIDS activist Larry Kramer live on stage in Liverpool, helping to establish the first Liverpool Pride, and creating the first artist-led response to air pollution anywhere in the UK.

Matthew holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Oxford and a Masters in Screenwriting from the Northern Film School. He was the runner-up for the Pen Parentis Fellowship in 2018 and last year he won the Sci-Fi/Fantasy Category of the Emerging Screenwriters Contest. Other screenplays he has written have placed in the Quarter- and Semi-Finals of the Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting.

His first novel for young people, THE SKY OVER REBECCA, won the Bath Children's Novel Award 2019. He is represented by Lauren Gardner at Bell Lomax Moreton in the UK. He and Lauren are currently working on the fine line edit of the novel to present to publishers.

Matthew lives in Stockholm with his partner and two-year-old daughter.