Mark Wallace has been a freelance journalist since 1998. His feature writing, news and profiles have appeared in The New York Times magazine, The New Yorker, the weekend Financial Times, New York magazine, GQ, Salon.com, The Philadelphia Independent, and many others. His book with Peter Ludlow (The Second Life Herald: The Virtual Tabloid that Witnessed the Dawn of the Metaverse, from MIT Press) was one of the first serious mainstream accounts of the social, commercial, and political impact of virtual worlds and online games. Find him on Twitter at @markwallace, and visit http://www.boyreporter.com for a selection of past work.