Matthew Clemens and authored or co-authored numerous short stories that appear in such anthologies as Private Eyes, Murder Most Confederate, the Hot Blood series, the Flesh & Blood series, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. With Pat Gipple, he co-authored Dead Water: The Klindt Affair, a regionally bestselling true crime book, and has written for such magazines as Fangoria, Femme Fatales, and TV Guide. He has worked as a book doctor on over fifty novels, and assisted the late Karl Largent on several bestselling techno-thrillers.
Clemens is also co-plotter and researcher for Max Allan Collins on books based on television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, Dark Angel, Bones, and Criminal Minds. Collins and Clemens have written comic books, graphic novels, a computer game, and jigsaw puzzles based on the successful CSI franchise. Many of their collaborative short stories were gathered in My Lolita Complex and Other Tales of Sex and Violence (2006), and their short story, "Murderlized," featuring Moe Howard (of Three Stooges fame) as an amateur detective, appears in the anthology Hollywood & Crime.
Clemens lives in Davenport, Iowa, with his wife Pam, a teacher.
Clemens is the only two-time winner of the John D. Locher Memorial Award at the Mississippi Valley Writers Conference.
He has been awarded the Dorothy Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award by the Midwest Writers Workshop.
CRIMINAL MINDS: JUMP CUT (2007) was nominated for a Scribe Award by the International Tie-In Writers Association.
YOU CAN’T STOP ME (2010) was nominated by the International Thriller Writers for Best Paperback Original.
Clemens’s work has been translated into French, German, and Japanese.
Former board member: Mississippi Valley Writers Conference.