Matthieu Gousseff was born in 1976 in the Yvelines and has worked in all sorts of professions: agronomist, statistician, banker, goat breeder, market unpacker, translator, data-scientist, teacher, etc. He writes book reviews for local radio stations, wins a few short story competitions and publishes stories under various pseudonyms. Ici finit le monde occidental is his first novel published by La Manufacture de livres.