Una McCormack

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.[6]

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 2004. This was followed by five more Star Trek novels: Hollow Men (2005) 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, was published in 2017.

She's also written a Star Trek Discovery novel, 'The Way to the Stars', and the first Picard novel, The Last Best Hope

She has written four Doctor Who novels for the official New Series Adventures range published by BBC Books: The King's Dragon (2010),[7] The Way Through the Woods (2011),[8] Royal Blood (2015)[9] and Molten Heart (2018).[10] She has recently written another Doctor Who novel for the upcoming Time Lord Victorious multi-platform story event titled All Flesh is Grass due for release in late 2020.

McCormack has also written The Undefeated, a work of original fiction, published in May 2019.

McCormack has also written numerous audio dramas, based on Doctor Who, Star Cops and Blake's 7, for Big Finish Productions.

McCormack lives in Cambridge with her partner Matthew and their daughter.

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