Una McCormack

Dr Una McCormack is a New York Times bestselling and BSFA award-winning science fiction writer who specializes in TV tie-in fiction. She has written more than two dozen novels based on TV shows such as Star Trek: Deep Space 9, Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Doctor Who, Firefly, and Blake’s 7, as well as many short stories and audio dramas. An associate fellow of Homerton College, Cambridge, she has academic interests in women’s science fiction and transformative works (‘fanfiction’), has written and presented on topics such as women and the works of Tolkien, the novels of Vonda N. McIntyre, and William Golding and SF, and has co-edited a collection of essays on the SF writer Lois McMaster Bujold (with Regina Yung Lee). A former lecturer in creative writing, she continues to mentor writers, particularly those embarking on their first novel, and is on the editorial board of Gold SF, an imprint of Goldsmith’s Press, which publishes intersectional feminist science fiction. Recently, she co-hosted the popular literary podcast Backlisted. Find her online: linktr.ee/unamccormack.