Born and raised in Buffalo, New York, Matt Ziemba has always been creatively focused. His passion has been in photography and digital illustration, with a focus on wildlife and big cats. Part of the gay community, Ziemba had championed acceptance and normalization of relationships between all people, regardless of identity. Through a narrative that reflected on his own struggle for acceptance, Ziemba combined his creative mind, his identity and his passions, to create his first novel, The Grimoire of Neiphlsven.