Transatlantic extends a warm welcome to Matt Kenny!
Matt Kenny is a recovering hockey player turned marathon runner, speaker, and disability and LGBTQ+ advocate, pursuing the goal of becoming one of the few people living with MS to complete all six World Marathon Majors. His work and keynote speaking is focused on identity, masculinity, mental health, and the hidden cost of silence in high-performance sports.
Matt’s memoir, Trade Off: A Memoir of Hockey, Silence, and Survival, is on submission in Canada and will soon be available to select editors in the US and around the world.
Raised in Kingston, Ontario, Matt lived and breathed hockey from the first time he put on skates at the age of three. As a closeted teenager, his life revolved around the demands of competitive hockey. Raised by coaches who insisted on accountability and teammates who became family, the game shaped him, giving him purpose, belonging, and a place in the world. Like many young athletes, Matt learned the unspoken rules of the sport: protect the team, keep moving when you’re hurting, and never let anyone see you bleed. But beneath the practices, games, and long bus rides were deeper expectations about masculinity, silence, and how to fit in. When Matt forms an unexpected connection with the new hockey player in town, he is forced to navigate first love, secrecy, loyalty, and the fear of losing everything if his secret is ever exposed. Nearly two decades later, a television series cracks him open, forcing him to confront the lasting impact of the choices he made to survive.
Matt Kenny is represented by Marilyn Biderman and Evan Brown.
Welcome, Matt!