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August Highland is the Director of Culture Animal. He is the originator of Hyper-Literary Fiction, Microlinear Storytelling, Next-Gen Nanopoetics, Genre-Splicing, Linguistics Engineering, Mediated Narrative Repatterning, Exhibition Literature, and Metapoetics Theatre.

He is the founder of the Worldwide Literati Mobilization Network, the International Belles Lettres Federation and the Superheroes of Humanities. Highland's literary work has appeared in numerous print and online publications (over 40 publications in 2003). His work has been translated into six languages. His work has also been acquired by the contemporary literature archive collections of American Universities and is required reading on the syllabi of professors teaching contemporary literature and new media communications.

Highland has produced over 150,000 literary works ranging in length between 500-1,000 pages. Each literay work is a one-of-a-kind piece, meaning that only the original works are sold, rather than being reproduced. August Highland calls this publishing model "Massive Production".

The works are presented unbound in custom-designed wooden boxes that are available in three wood types. Purchasers of Highland's work are also able to select from three font faces and three paper grades. Prices for the literary work by August Highland are $350-$500.

Highland also creates monumental-scale visual poetic works, some as large as 122"x122". These works are featured in virtual museums in New York and Italy. Prices for these works are $1,500-$5,000. Highland is also Publisher of the Muse Apprentice Guild, or the MAG, the Internet's largest International Literary Quarterly with over 40 co-editors worldwide. The first anniversary issue of the MAG featured over 700 writers and over 2,000 literary works.