Patrick Harrigan is the coeditor of the MIT Press volumes Zones of Control: Perspectives on Wargaming (2016), with Matthew Kirschenbaum; and Third Person: Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives (2009), Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media (2007), and First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game (2004), all with Noah Wardrip-Fruin. He is a former marketing director and creative developer for Fantasy Flight Games, and coedited FFG’s The Art of H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos (2006), with Brian Wood. His work has been published by Chaosium, Pagan Publishing, Gameplaywright, ETC Press, and Camden House. He has also written a novel, Lost Clusters (2005), and two collections of short stories, Thin Times and Thin Places (2012) and The Lecture Tour (2017). He lives in Minneapolis.