Matt Mayr grew up in Manitouwadge, a small Northern Ontario mining town. He studied English Literature at York University and Creative Writing at the Humber School for Writers. His first novel, Bad City (2015), was a quarter finalist for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Things Worth Burying (April 2020), is an Ontario Arts Council Grant recipient and is Longlisted for The Miramichi Reader's "The Very Best!" Book award. He lives in Toronto with his wife and daughter.