Matthew Hayward is a guitarist, songwriter, and horror fiction writer. Hayward has written and recorded with Nick Pollock, Ciaran Brennan, Edie Brickell, and Kevin Wood. His own band, Lace Weeper, is well known in the Irish music scene and has released four albums. Hayward's stories have appeared in Tales to Terrify, Dark Moon Digest, The Horror Zine, and anthologies. His first book, the collection "Brain Dead Blues," was published in 2017.