Brian Perry was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1977 and received his MA in English from East Carolina University in 2003 with his thesis, RandomAnime. While at ECU, Brian founded ECU SAGA, a Japanese animation and culture club and Blue Thunder Subtitling, a non-profit foreign film subtitling company. After receiving a BA in English in 1999, he taught English at Fukuoka Chuo High School in Kyuushu, Japan. An avid gamer, Brian has played various role-playing games and storytelling systems for over 15 years and is presently involved in researching role-playing game design theory. He is currently a Professor of English at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC.