He started writing the way most people start writing — out of necessity, because the available frameworks stopped holding and something had to be built to replace them. Fine arts at UNSW, Dean's List, then fifteen years of accumulation: yoga in Kerala, Vedic meditation, Reiki, three years of process-oriented psychotherapy, a Masonic initiation and an exit inside five meetings. All of it eventually composting into a philosophy stable enough to write from.

He works under two names. Matthew Grant is the one at the desk — essays, nonfiction, literary fiction, the long slow work of trying to be accurate about what he found. Sarah Jessica Carpark is the one who understands that the profane is not the opposite of the sacred but its most reliable access point — stage, aerials, queer art, the body as philosophical instrument.

He is currently seeking representation for Sex in the Carpark and Blunt Spirituality.