Matt Cardin is a writer, college teacher, and musician living in Central Texas. With a master's degree in religion and a lifetime of involvement in the study of world religion and philosophy, he writes frequently about the mutual implications of religion, spirituality, horror, and creativity. He is the author of Divinations of the Deep (2002), which launched the New Century Macabre fiction imprint for Ash-Tree Press, and Dark Awakenings (2010), which Publishers Weekly praised as a "thinking-man's book of the macabre" with "unusual philosophic depth."

His short horror fiction, reviews, interviews, and essays have appeared in Icons of Horror and the Supernatural, Encyclopedia of the Vampire, Alone on the Darkside, Cemetery Dance, Lovecraft Annual, The Thomas Ligotti Reader, Cthulhu's Reign, Dark Faith, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and elsewhere. He has received multiple honorable mentions in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, and has been recommended for the British Fantasy Award and Bram Stoker Award.

He is also a successful corporate blogger, consultant, and copywriter with a portfolio that encompasses media companies, nonprofit organizations, online retailers, and religious and educational institutions. He blogs about horror, religion, and cultural apocalypse at The Teeming Brain, and about the muse/daemon/genius model of creativity at Demon Muse.

He was a guest of honor at MoCon III: The Intersection of Spirituality, Art, and Gender, and has read from his work and appeared as a panelist at The World Fantasy Convention, The World Horror Convention, and ArmadilloCon.

He is also a long-time pianist, keyboardist, and composer. Former careers include high school teacher, piano salesman, corporate communications specialist, media producer for a large state university, and video director for country music legend Glen Campbell.