STEVE TOMASULA is the author of the novels The Book of Portraiture; VAS: An Opera in Flatland; and TOC: A New-Media Novel, which received the Mary Shelley Award for Excellence in Fiction, and the Gold Medal, Best Book of the Year, in the eLit Awards. His novel IN&OZ will be published this spring by the University of Chicago Press, with an afterword by Pawel Frelik. A Howard Fellow, he lives in Chicago and at www.stevetomasula.com.