René Georg Vasicek, aka R.G. Vasicek, the son of Czech defectors, was born in Austria in 1969. He grew up in the pine barrens of eastern Long Island and has lived in NYC since 1995. His books include the cybernetic anti-novel THE DEFECTORS (J.New Books, 2020), CYBORG (self & machine-made, 2021) and the forthcoming anti-anti novel MACHINE (Sweat Drenched Press, 2021). He is the recipient of a 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature. He lives inside his Mind.