Steve Tomasula is professor if English at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of many books, including VAS: An Opera in Flatland and The Book of Portraiture, as well as TOC: A New-Media Novel, which received the Mary Shelly Award for Excellence in Fiction, and the eLit Best Book of the Year Award. His short fiction is collected in Once Human: Stories. He has contributed short fiction and essays to a wide variety of publications, including BOMB, McSweeney’s, and The Iowa Review, where he received the Iowa Prize for the most distinguished work published in any genre.