Matthew Colvath

Matthew Colvath was born in California, USA, where he grew up in the ‘golden age’ of gaming when Nintendo and Sony were having their 1980s feud and movies had a more simple and light-hearted fantastical flair to them. Movies and games captured his attention and drove him to pursue game design to tell stories and express his creativity. His interest in game design petered off, but his passion for storytelling did not.

Graduating in 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in Communications from CSUS in Sacramento, Matthew faltered in direction in his life and after a year of aimless ambition decided to join the US Air Force. He was with the USAF for nearly 11 years and went through two deployments with the B-52 bombers up in Minot, North Dakota.

Through these years, he was honing his writing craft through fanfic. Being a self-taught author, he cut his teeth first on these low risk writing projects before tackling his first professional work with Legend of Ahya: Target of Interest. Now having separated from the military and picking up a career in IT (Information Technology), he started and finished the Legend of Ahya series while living in Germany. He has now moved back stateside and lives there with his wife and two boys while planning his next writing project.