Kylie Chan has a BBus in information technology, an MBA in information technology and an MPhil in Creative Writing researching new directions self-publishing. She started out as an IT consultant and trainer specialising in business intelligence systems in Australia, and then had her own consulting business for ten years in Hong Kong.

When she returned to Australia in 2002, Kylie studied martial arts and Buddhist and Taoist philosophy and wrote the bestselling nine-book Dark Heavens series, a fantasy homage of Chinese mythology and wuxia martial arts dramas. Her current work is the three-book ‘Dragon Empire’ science fiction series. She is a full-time writer based on Queensland’s Gold Coast.