Steve McCabe was born in Manchester, in the north of England. He left to teach in Japan when he was 23, and ten years later moved to the United States to train to be an airline pilot. When his flight school closed down, taking his money with them, he wrote Crash Landing, his first novel, a fictionalised account of the closing of Airline Training Academy. Steve now lives with his wife and daughter in New Zealand, where he writes, teaches physics and talks about technology on Radio New Zealand