Mirror Thief (Seay) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—ca. 1992
• Where—Katy, Texas, USA
• Education—B.A., Trinity University; M.A., Queens University of Charlotte
• Currently—lives in Chicago, Illinois


Martin Seay is the author of The Mirror Thief, his debut novel, published in 2016.

Martin grew up in Katy, Texas, a suburb of Houston. He graduated from Trinity University in San Antonio and lived in Austin, Texas, for a time. When he met Kathleen Rooney, an author and poet, they married, and the two moved around the country, living in Washington, D.C., New England, and Tacoma, Washington, eventually settling in Chicago. For a number of those years, Martin worked as a bookseller for a national chain. Since 2007, he has been the executive secretary for the Village of Wheeling, a suburb of Chicago.  (Adapted from The Little Red Reviewer.)