Matthew Derby is a contributing author of The Silent History, the first major exploratory, interactive novel designed specifically for the iPad and iPhone. He is also the author of the short story collection Super Flat Times. His stories have been anthologized in The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, The Apocalypse Reader, and Dzanc's Best of the Web. His writing has appeared in McSweeney's, Conjunctions, The Believer, The Columbia Journal, Fence, and Guernica. He is also a Senior Interface Designer at Harmonix, a game studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts