Raymond Hardie grew up in Donaghadee, N. Ireland. A small fishing town, and the closest port to Scotland, it boasts the country’s oldest pub established in 1610 - a point of contention with every other town in Ireland that also has the oldest pub! He has had three novels published, Fleet (Hodder & Stoughton, in London), Abyssos (Tor books, New York) and most recently No Man's Land (Endeavour Press, London), a political thriller, set in Los Angeles, Berlin and Washington D.C., during the spring of 1933. He has had a number of plays performed in workshop and onstage, and seven television scripts commissioned by BBC television. He was the senior editor of Stanford magazine for six years, and founding editor of UC San Diego alumni magazine Triton from 2004 to 2014. He is a graduate of Queen's University Belfast and U-Conn.