Matt Kimpton

Matt Kimpton was born on the Isle of Wight in 1976.

Among his achievements as a playwright were pantomime for his local amateur dramatics group and a play taken to the Edinburgh Festival while he studied Philosophy at Cambridge University. His comedy writing appeared in the 2004 ITV series Shoot the Writers.

In 2006 his Doctor Who short story 'Life After Queth' appeared in the Big Finish book Doctor Who- Short Trips- Farewells. It was reprinted in the final Big Finish fiction collection, Doctor Who- Short Trips- Re:Collections in 2009.

His gifts as an oral storyteller led him to be crowned Chief Skald of Sussex in 2010.

He lived with his partner Tom and with Cystic Fibrosis. He died in 2012.

For Obverse, Matt wrote 'Storyteller', in A Romance in Twelve Parts, 'Shadow of the Times Before' in The Panda Book of Horror and 'Auld Lang Syne' in The Casebook of the Manleigh Halt Irregulars.

He also appears in fictional form in the opening section of More Tales of the City. Beyond Obverse, he and Tom are also fictionalised in the Scholastic books Murderous Maths series as two of "The Pure Mathematicians".

The charity collection Storyteller- A Found Book is dedicated to his memory and supports the Cystic Fibrosis Trust.