Stephen Wm. Irving was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia and has been a Creative Media and Performing Arts Teacher since 1985, working in high school education. Married with three children in a modern blended family. He has a keen interest and passion in storytelling, whether it be in directing students in theatrical productions as broad in range as 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' to 'West Side Story' and in guiding students in the creation of media projects of varying media forms such as photography, film, video and animation production.
An avid fan of the AFL Richmond Football Club, which has now won three Premierships in four years, he enjoys movies, soundtrack music, writing and developing original and historically inspired screenplays and reading speculative and fantasy fiction.