Christopher B. Patterson is associate professor in the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Open World Empire: Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games (New York University Press, 2020) and Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific (2018). Under his pen name Kawika Guillermo, he has published Nimrods: a fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir (Duke University Press, 2023), Stamped: an anti-travel novel (Westphalia Press, 2018), and All Flowers Bloom (Westphalia Press, 2020).