Samara Hayley Steele, MFA, is a PhD student in Cultural Studies and a Graduate Research Fellow with the ModLab, the Humanities Game Lab at UC Davis.  She has been a practitioner, gamerunner, and maker of interactive narrative media since 2002, and is a co-creator of Thermophiles in Love (2016), a five-gender dating game featured in the gallery of the 30th Annual Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA).  Her most recent project is Sivad, a place-based analog RPG campaign that takes place in a mysterious world connected to Davis through quantum entanglement. Steele is also a Staff Economist with the California Economists Collective, a group working to leverage the University of California’s power towards  community wealth building strategies, supporting indigenous communities, democratic workplaces, and ecological harm reduction. Steele is a former foster kid, and she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Portland State University.

Meanwhile Netprov Studio Netrunners (netprov producers and lead writers)

Mark C. Marino (http://markcmarino.com) is a writer and scholar of electronic literature living in Los Angeles.  He recently taught How to Write and Read Fake News for UnderAcademy College (https://medium.com/the-fake-news-reader/).  He also teaches writing at the University of Southern California where he Directs the Humanities and Critical Code Studies Lab (http://haccslab.com).   His recent work includes Mrs. Wobbles and the Tangerine House (http://markcmarino.com/mrsw/), a collection of interactive stories  he is writing with his children. His book Critical Code Studies is forthcoming from MIT Press (2020). Mark  is the Director of Communication of the Electronic Literature Organization (http://eliterature.org).

Rob Wittig plays at the crossroads of literature, graphic design and digital culture. He co-founded the legendary IN.S.OMNIA electronic bulletin board with the Surrealist-style literary and art group Invisible Seattle.  From this came a Fulbright grant to study the writing and graphic design of electronic literature with philosopher Jacques Derrida in Paris. Rob’s book based on that work, Invisible Rendezvous, was published Wesleyan University Press. He then embarked on a series of illustrated and designed email and web fictions. Rob has worked in major publishing and graphic design firms in Chicago, leading R&D teams. He is currently developing high-design, collaborative fiction in a form called netprov, networked improv narrative. Rob teaches graphic design and writing at the University of Minnesota Duluth.