Louis Flint Ceci has been a high school English teacher, a college professor of journalism and mass communications, a commercial actor, and a freelance science journalist. He was a software engineer before retiring in 2015.His poetry appears in The Colorado-North Review and Impossible Archetype. He won the Gold Medal in the Poetic Justice Poetry Slam at the 2002 Gay Games in Sydney, Australia.His short stories have appeared in "Diseased Pariah News," "Jonathan," and "Trikone Magazine," and in the anthologies "Queer and Catholic," "Gay City Volume 4: At Second Glance," and "Best Gay Erotica of the Year, #3." He has twice been a finalist in the Saints+Sinners short fiction contest. His four-novel series, "The Croy Cycle," wrapped up with "Leave Me Not Alone in 2022."Ceci has published several scholarly articles on linguistics and poetics, and one on artificial intelligence, "Efficient Distribution of Back-Propagation Models on Parallel Architectures," which he co-authored with Patrick Lynn and Phillip E. Gardner. It has not, to date, made its authors billionaires.Ceci is an avid U.S. Masters swimmer, and he has competed in the International Gay and Lesbian Aquatics World Championships in 2020 and 2024, and in the 2026 Gay Games in Valencia, Spain.He lives in Nevada City, California.