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Matt Lennox (born 1980 in Orillia, Ontario) is a Canadian fiction writer, whose 2015 novel Knucklehead was a longlisted contender for the 2017 edition of Canada Reads.

A film studies graduate of York University, he enlisted in the Canadian Army and served in Kandahar, Afghanistan. He then studied creative writing at the University of Guelph, and published his debut short story collection Men of Salt, Men of Earth in 2009. The book was a finalist for the ReLit Awards in the short fiction category in 2010.

He published his debut novel The Carpenter in 2012. The novel was also translated into French as Rédemption. Knucklehead followed in 2015.

References

1. ^ "The New Recruit: Matt Lennox on The Carpenter". National Post, March 2, 2012.
2. "CBC Canada Reads 2017 announces longlist, including Katherena Vermette, Vivek Shraya, André Alexis". National Post, December 19, 2016.
3. ^ "Tales from Kandahar - just not yet". The Globe and Mail, March 1, 2010.
4. "La Rédemption de Matt Lennox". Le Journal du Dimanche, September 26, 2014.
5. "Review: Knucklehead serves as an exploration of contemporary manhood". The Globe and Mail, May 29, 2015.

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