Steve Tomasula is the author of the novels The Book of Portraiture (FC2), IN & OZ (U Chicago), and VAS: An Opera in Flatland (U Chicago), the novel of the bio-tech revolution. He is also the author of the e-novel TOC: A New-Media Novel, which received the Mary Shelly Award for Excellence in Fiction and an E-Lit Best Book of the Year Award. Selections of his short fiction are collected in Once Human: Stories. His essays on bio-art, new narrative, and literature have appeared in Data Made Flesh; Meta-Life: Biotechnologies; The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature; The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature; and other publications. He also founded &NOW. www.stevetomasula.com.