Based in Perth (Western Australia), Martin Livings has a background in Information Technology. As an author he has written more than thirty of his stories and novellas in the genres of science fiction and horror. Since the early 1990s these have featured in such publications as Eidolon, Aurealis, Ticonderoga Online, Antipodean SF, AustrAlien Absurdities, Fables and Reflections, Shadowed Realms, two Agog! anthologies and Daikaiju. Livings has been nominated for the Aurealis and Ditmar awards for short fiction and has won a Tin Duck. His writing career has also seen him engaged as an associate editor of Eidolon.