Samara Hayley Steele holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Portland State University. She is a writer for the anarchist press and has been engaged with larp (live action role-play) as a practitioner, staffer, rules developer, and theorist since 2003. She has been part of a number of hacker spaces in the Bay Area, and worked as operations manager for a tech start-up company from 2013-15. Her scholarship explores reification and social apparatuses.