Marty Halpern is a two-time finalist for the World Fantasy Award - Professional for his work with Golden Gryphon Press. In his eight years with Golden Gryphon (1999–2007), Marty edited 23 1/2 hardcovers, 4 limited edition chapbooks, and 4 reprint trade paperbacks. The 1/2 title is the original anthology The Silver Gryphon (2003, marking the press's twenty-fifth hardcover), which he co-edited with publisher Gary Turner. The 23 titles include Charles Stross' Hugo Award-winning novella "The Concrete Jungle" in The Atrocity Archives (2004), Jeffrey Ford's World Fantasy Award-winning The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories (2002) and novella "Botch Town" in The Empire of Ice Cream (2006), Lucius Shepard's International Horror Guild Award-winning Louisiana Breakdown (2003), and M. Rickert's World Fantasy and Crawford Award-winning Map of Dreams (2006).

Marty now freelances, editing for independent publishers, including Night Shade Books, Tachyon Publications, and Warren Lapine's Tir Na Nog Press, for whom he copyedits Realms of Fantasy magazine. He has also co-edited, with Claude Lalumière, the anthology of sardonic fiction Witpunk (Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003), and with Nick Gevers, original Fermi Paradox anthology Is Anybody Out There? (DAW Books, June 1, 2010). Marty and Nick currently have "hard urban fantasy" anthology Strange Magnificence in the hands of an agent. Marty has published a series of columns entitled "The Perfect Sentence" in The Valley Scribe, the newsletter of the San Fernando Valley chapter of the California Writers Club, and in 2004 he was guest faculty at the East of Eden Writers Conference.

Marty Halpern currently lives in San Jose, California, and occasionally emerges from his inner sanctum to attend conventions. On his blog, More Red Ink (martyhalpern.blogspot.com), Marty shares his experiences editing.