J. M. Blum

J. M. Blum was born in ’77, in a forest grove of the Pacific Northwest. Comic books and Commodores informed his childhood, along with tales of wonder from books, radio, tele, movies, and even stories spoken over rotary telephones. But games around tables co-creating meaningful stories has always been a great passion.

Blum attended Virtual High in Vancouver, BC in the ‘90s. He wrote some unpublished poetry about it. Then he hung out at an ashram and went traveling before attending the Center for Digital Imaging and Sound in the noughties to take up video game programming; which he eschewed for academic and industrial computer and data science/engineering. He wrote a PhD thesis, published papers in journals and conference proceedings, and wrote a great deal of technical content and programs. But he missed fiction.