Steven Mather spent over twenty-one years as a computer scientist, always on the cutting edge of the latest advances in information technology. He earned his degree in computer science in 1984 and worked primarily as a consultant in a variety of industries across the nation: communications, banking, insurance, medicine, and the Department of Defense. He has an eclectic spectrum of hobbies and interests. He still keeps his eyes on the IT industry. Fascinated by emerging technologies that affect our lives as man and machine become increasingly integrated, he stays up to date on technological advances and the possible directions they may go. These same innovations and possibilities provide him with many ideas for fiction. In 2004 he became disabled and after several years realized he needed something to do with his life and as a fanatical reader he always wanted to write, so he gave it a try.

During the leaner years at the beginning of his career, when computers where not ubiquitous business and household items, he held a variety of jobs that taught him skills he could use in the years to come. He sold cars, spent two years as a fashion photographer, was an auto-painter, and a technical writer. As a youth, he read primarily science fiction and fantasy but his interests began to include thriller, suspense, and horror novels as he got older.
Steven now lives in Tampa, FL. He has a special passion for live, coral reef tanks that serve as gardens of color and life for him. Steven loves the mountains and western states where he can disappear into the wilderness and away from the everyday life of suburban living for a short time. 

Although he has only been writing fiction for several years, he takes his craft as seriously as creating profitable business applications or learning a new computer language. He is very active in his local writing community and serves as the group leader for the Tampa Bay region of the Florida Writers Association. He enjoys helping aspiring writers and does what he can to be encouraging and helpful. He is currently at work on several fiction and non-fiction projects as well as the first of two sequels to Three of a Kind.