Matt Leger

(1963 -- present)

Matthew Gerard Leger, known as Matt G. Leger, is a filk fan, performer and composer and a longtime illustrator for conventions and fan clubs. He is the publisher of three booklets of his filksongs and drawings.

Leger was born in Lafayette, Louisiana in 1963 and entered SF/F fandom in 1977 by attending Vul-Con V in New Orleans, Louisiana. He began composing filk parodies and original songs in 1981 while attending Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. In 1982, he began self-publishing a series of three annual fanzines of his work, titled Matt G. Leger's Demented, Deranged & Degenerate Filksongs.

Awards, Honors and GoHships:

• 1987 -- New Orleans Science Fiction & Fantasy Festival Fan GoH
• 2005 -- Pegasus Award
• 2011 -- GAFilk 13 Toastmaster
• 2014 -- Conjecture 2014 / ConChord 26 Interfilk co-GoH with Mary Mulholland

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