Nir Yaniv lives in Tel Aviv, Israel. He is the author of one short story collection in Hebrew, One Hell of a Writer, and of two novels co-written with Lavie Tidhar, A Fictional Murder and The Tel Aviv Dossier, published by Chizine in 2009. His new short story collection, The Love Machine & Other Contraptions, will be published this summer by Infinity Plus Books. Yaniv founded Israel’s first online F&SF magazine and, as a musician, created Israel’s first SF music album, The Universe in a Pita. Most recently, he produced and directed his first short film, Conspiracy, which was shown in several film festivals around the world including Sci Fi London. He also played a monster in the short Israeli horror film Eaten.