Matt Lennox is a Captain in the Canadian Forces Army Reserves, and was stationed in Kandahar between 2008 and 2009. He wrote many of the stories in his first collection, Men of Salt, Men of Earth, published by Oberon in 2009, while there. The collection was shortlisted for the 2010 ReLit award, and the title story was published in Best Canadian Stories in 2006. He is currently in his second year of an MFA at Guelph-Humber.
