Hal Niedzviecki is a writer, culture commentator and editor whose work challenges preconceptions and confronts readers with the offenses of everyday life. He is the author of many books including the short story collection Look Down, This is Where it Must Have Happened and the nonfiction books Trees on Mars: Our Obsession with the Future, The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors, and Hello, I'm Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity. He is the publisher and founder of Broken Pencil, the magazine of zine culture and the independent arts (www.brokenpencil.com). Hal's writing has appeared in newspapers, periodicals and journals across the world including the New York Times Magazine, Playboy, The Utne Reader, The Globe and Mail, the National Post, Toronto Life, Walrus, Geist, and This Magazine. Niedzviecki is committed to exploring the human condition through provocative fiction and non-fiction that charts the media saturated terrain of ever shifting multiple identities at the heart of our fragmenting age. He lives in Toronto.Hal's web page: http://www.alongcametomorrow.comHal's Peep Culture blog: http://thepeepdiaries.comFollow Hal on Twitter: http://twitter.com/halpenLike Hal on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/HalNiedzvieckiwriter