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Matthew Stokoe (born in 1963) is a British writer and screenwriter.^[1]

Stokoe was born in England, graduated from University of East London where he studied economics, and has lived in Australia, New Zealand, and the US (Santa Monica, CA).^[2] Stokoe has written several books and screenplays, one of which (Flick and Jube - unproduced) was co-written with Simon Mackie, based on Mackie's comic strip Flick and Jube. He is mostly known for his brutal, noir, violent style of writing. Among his favorite authors are Raymond Chandler, Hubert Selby, and Nelson Algren. In 2014 Stokoe's third novel, Empty Mile, was nominated for the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. His fourth novel, Colony of Whores, continues Stokoe's exploration of the Hollywood underbelly begun in his second novel, High Life.

• Colony of Whores (2014)
• Empty Mile (2010)
• High Life (2002)^[3]
• Cows (1998) ^[4]

• Rock dir. Brian Challis
• Dog dir. Paul Kwiatkowski

• Official website
• A necrophile hero is something to be
• London Book Review of High Life
• Publishers Weekly starred review of "Empty Mile"
• Believer review of "High Life"