Igor Goldkind was born in Lansing, Michigan and raised in San Diego, California. He is an author, poet, and lecturer who currently specializes in Digital Storytelling and Information Architecture. In 1983, Goldkind moved to Paris where he studied with Michel Foucault, the French Post-Structuralist scholar. After receiving a graduate certificate from La Sorbonne, Goldkind moved to London where he worked first for Titan Books in the 1980s as a marketing consultant and PR spokesperson. Here, Goldkind helped develop and promoted the term "graphic novel" as a way to help sell the trade paperbacks then being published. Goldkind has lectured at Liverpool University, St. Martins School of Design, and the London College of Printing. He is considered by his contemporaries to be an expert in the growing fields of Computational Narrative and Speculative Realism. He continues to write and serve as the creative mind behind projects that link computational technologies with art, education, and storytelling. Igor Goldkind's most recent transmedia work , IS SHE AVAILABLE?, incorporates poetry, art, music, and motion, is published this March 17th by Chameleon Publishing. http://is-she-available.com