Teo Kuusela is a Finnish author of interactive fiction and a writer of genre fiction in addition to being a graphic designer as his day job. He is currently an art director at Datadrivers Oy where he helps create a variety of materials for driver education.

Born in 1991 in Turku, Finland, he came to love everything to do with computers and the internet. Writing and roleplaying-by-post online by 2003, he developed a knowledge of and growing love for the English language. His first interactive fiction - although he did not know about the genre at the time - was around 2003 as well, when he wrote a Lord of the Rings IF for his own amusement. It was a very barebones html project with links carrying the storyline through a variety of choices.

After an extra year of middle school - mainly to figure out what he wanted to do with his life - he studied for a while in vocational school to become a car painter, which was combined with the academic secondary school studies in a double-examination program. In the 2011 matriculation exam he got a Laudatur (highest possible grade) in English. Starting in the summer of 2011 he entered the Finnish Defence Forces, was trained as an NCO for the TOW anti-armour missile system, and entered the reserve after 12 months of service.

After his service, he spent a couple of years bouncing between Finland and Norway, settling abroad in Bergen from mid-2014 to the end of 2017 while starting a serious attempt at a writing career. Now you may know him best for the interactive novels Lords of Aswick, Best of Us, and Diamant Rose, although due to real life obligations writing has been put on the backburner for the immediate future.

In addition to his writing, Teo was also the first Dungeon Master for STD&D, a Dungeons & Dragons show on The Seppola's Twitch channel. Teo is now showrunner for the roleplaying-focused Twitch channel called Banteroll.