John Sutherland is a writer at Microsoft Game Studios. He has done a variety of writing, script doctoring, and story consultant work on Dungeon Siege II, MechAssault 2, the entire Combat Flight Simulator series, Mythica, and dozens of other games, shipped, cancelled, or forthcoming. Few people know that he is the author of all the haiku in the strategy section of Go in the card and board games area of Zone.com.