Information about Textfyre Publishing

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DAVID CORNELSON is a computer consultant and entrepreneur in Chicago, Illinois. Most of his consulting work is in Fortune 500 corporations where he architects and develops highly visible enterprise web and windows systems. David has also had a passion for the Interactive Fiction medium since high school when he played Adventure and mainframe Zork on paper terminals.

You can see a history of Textfyre's business development through David's blog.

MICHAEL GENTRY is an award winning Interactive Fiction author with two major games, Anchorhead and Little Blue Men. He lives on the east coast with his wife and children.

IAN FINLEY holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University, where he received the prestigious Harry Kodoleon Award for playwriting. His plays include The Nature of the Nautilus (winner of the Kennedy Center's Jean Kennedy Smith award), Green Square, 1960, and the Oakwood cycle of plays. His interactive fiction includes the award winning Babel, Exhibition, and Kaged.

JON INGOLD is from Manchester, UK. His previous Interaction Fiction has won competitions and awards, most notably All Roads (winner of the 2001 Interactive Fiction competition and Best Game of the Year award, and published in the Electronic Literature Organisation's first annual collection) and Dead Cities (on display in the Museum of Science Fiction and Utopia in Switzerland in 2008).

PAUL O'BRIAN is the only person ever to have won the Interactive Fiction Competition twice, taking the top prize in 2002 and 2004 with games from his Earth And Sky series. In addition to authoring games, he has written hundreds of reviews, all of which are available online. He lives in Westminster, Colorado with his wife and son, and was once a counselor at the camp upon which Giant Leaps is based.

CHRISTOPHER HUANG lives in a pleasant little condo in the state of Complacency and is in a committed relationship with his internet connection. He enjoys National Novel Writing Month, taking second place in the annual IFcomp, pretending to be a pirate, attending Mass, and wearing waistcoats. When not doing any of the above, he can usually be found working in an architecture firm in downtown Montreal.

SARAH MORAYATI, of Chapel Hill, is the author of several IF works including Broken Legs, which earned second place in the 2009 Interactive Fiction Competition. Outside the IF world, she's worked as a freelance writer and editor.

GRAEME JEFFERIS lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is a BSc Hons. software engineer who has worked for companies across the UK, and for CERN in Switzerland. He plays clarinet, saxophone, and bass guitar, and his code is fuelled by hot tea, Irn Bru, and biscuits. He's done 99% of the programming on all Textfyre games.

MIKE SNYDER lives with his wife and three children in Wichita, Kansas, where he spends his days developing software and his nights and weekends trying to be a “fun” dad. Mike has been writing interactive fiction since 1987, with later efforts ranking highly in the annual IF competition and winning XYZZY awards for Best Puzzles (Distress - 2005) and Best Story (The Traveling Swordsman - 2006). When time permits, Mike enjoys zombie-slaying and various forms of world-saving in one or another of the video games in his ever-growing collection.

NICK MONTFORT writes computational and constrained poetry, develops computer games, and is a critic, theorist, and scholar of computational art and media. He is associate professor of digital media in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned a Ph.D. in computer and information science from the University of Pennsylvania. (more)

DAVID MAY is an IT executive and entrepreneur in Chicago. David was co-founder and CTO of LoanX, an internet-based financial services firm founded in 2001. In 2004, LoanX was sold to Markit Group, a London-based financial information services firm. Today, Markit exceeds $400 million dollars in revenue and more than 1,200 employees throughout the world. Its independent pricing, quotes and valuation services are now used by over 1,500 of the most prominent investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers, central banks, regulators, rating agencies and insurance companies. The combined entity is now worth in excess of $3 billion dollars. Following the acquisition of LoanX, David served as Co-CTO at Markit, retiring from the firm in 2008 to assist aspiring entrepreneurs.