Based in Canberra, where he has worked as a bushfire research scientist at CSIRO's Division of Forestry, Andrew Sullivan completed a Ph D in theoretical physics at the Australian National University. He has since published widely and frequently on the behaviour of bushfires. As a speculative fiction author he has published one novel, A Sunburnt Country (2003). His short stories have also appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including EOD, Gathering Forces, Antipodean SF, Harbinger, AurealisXpress and Daikaiju: Giant Monsters.