Ian Irvine is a marine scientist and fantasy writer who has written twenty-six novels.

His three fantasy series, The View from the Mirror, The Well of Echoes and Song of the Tears, are international bestsellers.

He has also written a near-future eco-thriller trilogy about catastrophic climate change, Human Rites, recently republished in an updated edition, plus eleven novels for children in the Runcible Jones, Sorcerer's Tower and Grim and Grimmer series.