Una McCormack

Dr Una McCormack (born 1972) is a British-Irish academic and novelist.

McCormack teaches at Anglia Ruskin University, as a lecturer in creative writing. She is also a co-director of the Anglia Ruskin University Centre for Science Fiction and Fantasy. She is best known as the author of numerous tie-in novels based on the science fiction TV series Star Trek and Doctor Who.

McCormack was born on 13 January 1972 in St Helens, Merseyside. She is the youngest of six children born to Gerald James McCormack and Kathleen McCormack (née Towey), both primary school teachers. She was educated at Carmel College, St Helens, then studied for a BA in History and Social and Political Science at Newnham College, Cambridge, followed by an MSc in Psychology at the University of Reading and a PhD in Sociology at the University of Surrey.

McCormack's first professionally published fiction was a short story, A Time and a Place, published in issue 197 of Doctor Who Magazine in 1993.

Her fan fiction based on the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine led to her being commissioned to write a story, Face Value, for the Prophet and Change anthology collection published by Pocket Books in 2003. Her first DS9 novel, Cardassia: The Lotus Flower, was published in in 2004. This was followed by four more Star Trek novels: The Never-Ending Sacrifice (2009), Brinkmanship (2012), the New York Times bestselling The Fall: The Crimson Shadow (2013) and The Missing (2014). Her latest DS9 novel, Enigma Tales, will be published in 2017.

She has written three Doctor Who novels for the official New Series Adventures range published by BBC Books. They are: The King's Dragon (2010), The Way Through the Woods (novel) (2011) and Royal Blood (Doctor Who) (2015).

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