Steve Perry is the author of the Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire book and, with Michael Reaves, the MedStar Duology, the short story MedStar: Intermezzo, and Death Star. He also wrote the script for the Shadows of the Empire: Evolution comic.

Perry is a member of various organizations, including Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America; The Animation Guild, Local #839 (IATSE); Writers Guild of America, West; and the TriCounty Gun Club. He is a beginning student of the Indonesian martial art Penjak Silat, under Maha Guru Stevan Plinck, of Vancouver, Washington, and was a player in the largest guitar band ever assembled, according the Guinness Book of World Records.

He is a practitioner of the martial art Silat, on which he based Teräs Käsi.