Stephen St. Francis Decky is a multimedia artist and writer whose work has appeared in a wide array of festivals, collections, and museums, including the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Nagoya, Japan. As a projection and video designer, he has worked on operas, musicals, and video installations with Mountain Time Arts in Bozeman, MT, IlluminArts Miami, and Beth Morrison Projects, as well as many other arts organizations. Stephen has taught animation, film, and video classes at several schools, including Ithaca College, Tufts University, and Lycoming College, and his films have screened at festivals internationally, including the Camden International Film Festival and the VOID International Animation Film Festival in Copenhagen, Denmark. His fiction has appeared in Philadelphia Stories, Berkeley Fiction Review, and Luna Negra. He is the author of "Make the Bear Be Nice" - Frayed Edge Press Street Smart Series, No. 6, and currently lives and works in central New York.