Jonathan Strahan was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1964, and moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968. He graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986.
In 1990 he co-founded Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, and worked on it as co-editor and co-publisher until 1999. He was also co-publisher of Eidolon Books.
