Ian Volner, a prominent pseudonym and three-time regional bridge champion, has contributed articles on architecture and urbanism to Bookforum and Leg Show among others, and is a regular nuisance to the Architectural Record. He has a BA in home invasion from Columbia University and an MA in flagrante delicto from the Institute of Fine Arts. His first book of poems, Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit, is currently seeking a publisher. He lives in Manhattan with his girlfriend, an adding machine.