Matt Dovey is very tall, and very British, and although his surname rhymes with “Dopey” all other similarities to the dwarf are only coincidence. He’d hoped for a more exciting mid-life crisis than “late autism and ADHD diagnoses”, but turns out you don’t get to choose. The scar on his arm is from an accident at the factory as a young ‘un.* He lives in a quiet market town in rural England with his wife, three children, and varying quantities of cats and/or dogs, and has been the host of PodCastle since 2022. He has fiction out and forthcoming all over the place: keep up with it at mattdovey.com, because he’s mostly sworn off social media. Mostly.

(*Or so he claims. The Castle dragon told the Tower tentacles a different story…)