Lynda Williams is the author of the Okal Rel Saga, a ten-novel series on an epic scale featuring cultures based around bio-engineered extremes of character from the over-sexed Vrellish to the soulful and artistic Golden Demish. Her background includes studying Latin, working in education in a half-dozen roles, and teaching applied computing."All my life," Lynda explains her eclectic education and life experience, "I had questions that no single discipline could answer without help from others."Fully-realized characters living the drama and humor of culture clash are the hallmark of the Okal Rel experience: dramatizing questions about what it means to be human. Additional works set in the Okal Rel Universe, by Lynda and others working with her, bring the count for discrete works to more than 20 titles. Starting in 2013, additional works and interpretations of the stories will start rolling out from Reality Skimming Press. And an open enrollment course, Okal Rel 101, is anticipated from Instructure Canvas Network, in collaboration with academics and artists of many varieties. Interdisciplinarity rocks. Get involved.