Born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, Arden Baker is a lapsed translator and emerging writer of short science fiction and fantasy. After spending time living and working in China, he returned to his home city where he now works as a consultant and a language teacher. In his spare time he drinks overpriced gin, brews mead, plays tabletop RPGs, and runs a small speculative fiction writing collective – Meridian Australis. He has previously been published in Aurealis and Intrepidus Ink.