Matt Clairmont is a Nova Scotian novelist born and raised in Yarmouth County. He currently resides in New Minas, in the Annapolis Valley, where he works for a non-profit organization supporting adults with intellectual disabilities. He published his first book, the crime-fiction novel Lesser Minds: The Michael Enslow Project in 2006. Wentworth Road is his second novel. In 2007 he married his wife Christina and they welcomed a son, Austin Justice, to the family in March 2011.