Mike Kleine was born in Dakar, Senegal in 1988. He is the author of several texts, including Mastodon Farm (Atlatl Press), Arafat Mountain (Atlatl Press) and Kanley Stubrick (We Heard You Like Books). In 2017, he wrote a 100,000-word computer-generated novel in five days for the “Castle Freak Residency”, titled, Lonely Men Club (Inside the Castle), about a time-traveling manifestation of the Zodiac Killer. He wrote the play, The Mystery of the Seventeen Pilot Fish (Plays Inverse) which was staged in 2016 as a one-time performance, at Berl's Poetry Shop in Brooklyn, NY. He also co-created the interactive poem, WE R THE WORLD, with author Dan Hoy for the 2019 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction, where it won the audience award for Most Bizarre. He then released, Where the Sky Meets the Ocean and the Air Tastes Like Metal and the Birds Don't Make A Sound (Trnsfr Books) in 2021—again with author Dan Hoy—a mystery novel starring detectives Daniel and Michael, who must work together to solve a murder on planet Earth. He has released a handful of chaps, burnin' oceans. (surfaces.cx), Karaoke Night at Daisuke's (SLFFCK) and most recently, agbogbloshie (Private Release). He also created a hypertext project about the year 1996, titled, xyzzy (Always Crashing). He currently lives and works in Iowa.