Matthew Condon is an Australian journalist and writer. He was born in 1962 in Brisbane, Australian. He was educated at the University of Queensland and the Goethe Institute, Bremen, Germany. His first book was The Motorcycle Cafe. A Night at the Pink Poodle and The Lulu Magnet both won Steele Rudd Awards for Short Fiction. All Fall Down (book 3 of the Terry Lewis biographies, Three Crooked Kings and Jacks and Jokers) won the 2016 Australian Book Industry Awards Small publishers' adult book of the year. His other books include Usher, The Ancient Guild, The Pillow Fight, and The Trout Opera. Currently, he writes for The Courier-Mail.