August Highland is the Director of Culture Animal; the originator of Hyper-Literary Fiction, Microlinear Storytelling, Next-Gen Nanopoetics, Genre-Splicing and Metapoetics Theatre; founder of the Worldwide Literati Mobilization Network, the International Belles Lettres Federation and the Superheroes of Humanities; Publisher of the Muse Apprentice Guild, an International Literary Quarterly.