Steve Perry is an American television writer and science fiction author of numerous Star Wars novels. Perry is a native of the Deep South, and his residences have included Louisiana, California, Washington, and Oregon. Prior to working full-time as a freelance writer, he worked as a swimming instructor, lifeguard, assembler of toys, clerk in a hotel gift shop and a car rental agency, an aluminum salesman, a martial arts instructor, private detective, and nurse.

Stephani Perry is an American novelist who has written numerous Resident Evil tie-in novels, as well as several tie-in novels to popular series such as Aliens, Alien vs. Predator, Star Trek, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Perry also wrote the movie novelizations for Timecop and Virus. She is the daughter of bestselling sci-fi author Steve Perry and lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and two children.