Author Matthew Rudolph was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1991 and grew up spending most of his free time playing sports and enjoying the outdoors. Although he spent twelve years playing football, basketball, baseball and soccer it wasn’t until after high school that he started hunting and training martial arts, finding a new passion in the woods and on the mats. Matthew also enjoys skiing, scuba diving and is a lifelong supporter of the Cincinnati Bengals. Matthew attended Central Michigan University and the University of Cincinnati after high school majoring in History and minoring in English. He still lives in Cincinnati with his two golden retrievers Ezekiel and Bode.

Matthew also started coaching football and basketball when he was twenty and spent six years coaching at the middle school and high school level. When Matthew is not busy writing, he likes to spend his free time hunting, fishing and training martial arts with a specific focus on Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai. Under his Carlson Gracie lineage, Matthew also enjoys helping teach the youth program at the gym where he trains. Matthew is also a certified personal trainer. While Matthew obviously has a passion for martial arts and hunting which are common themes in his writing, he also looks forward to exploring various other themes with his future works. With over a decade of experience hunting in the Midwest, Matthew brings many of his own experiences to life with his unique story telling and writing.