Michael A. Martin's solo short fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He has also coauthored (with Andy Mangels) several Star Trek comics for Marvel and Wildstorm and numerous Star Trek novels and e-books, including the USA Today best-seller Titan: Book One: Taking Wing; Titan: Book Two: The Red King; the Sy Fy Genre Award-winning Star Trek: Worlds of Deep Space 9 Book Two: Trill — Unjoined; Star Trek: The Lost Era 2298 — The Sundered ; Star Trek: Deep Space 9 Mission Gamma: Book Three: Cathedral; Star Trek: The Next Generation: Section 31 — Rogue; Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers #30 and #31 ("Ishtar Rising" Books 1 and 2); stories in the Prophecy and Change, Tales of the Dominion War, and Tales from the Captain's Table anthologies; three novels based on the Roswell television series; and the forthcoming novels Star Trek: Enterprise — Last Full Measure and Star Trek: Forged in Fire (a pivotal tale of Captain Hikaru Sulu and the crew of the U.S.S. Excelsior).

Martin's work has also been published by Atlas Editions (in their Star Trek Universe subscription card series), Star Trek Monthly, Dreamwatch, Grolier Books, The Oregonian, Gareth Stevens, Inc. (for whom he wrote several World Almanac Library of the States nonfiction books for young readers), and Visible Ink Press (for whom he penned many entries in The Superhero Book: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Comic-Book Icons and Hollywood Heroes and its forthcoming companion volume, The Supervillain Book. Martin lives with his wife, Jenny, and their two sons in Portland, Oregon.