Viadu Barbosa is a fictional character writing real stories. His writing is fueled by just enough mental instability to touch the unreasonable but with just enough mental stability to translate it into conceivable verbiage. He went to college for Biochemistry but is vastly more street educated in existentialist philosophy and counter-capitalist business practices, which informs his oddly technical explorations into the absurd and horrific. When not writing, he's working with his real fictional husband to design and produce hobby board games, such as the upcoming Apocalypse Cats. For food money, he labors at a nonprofit that provides services to low-income individuals and families. He lives in Northern California’s rural-burban where he practices casual planetary magick and worships his three real fictional cats.

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Viadu's writing has been described as:

• A precarious mating ritual between Chuck Palahniuk and Martin Heidegger

• A box containing hundreds of tiny Charlie Jane Anders being desperately held closed by Yanis Varoufakis and Ray Bradbury

• The profane offspring yielded by genetic splicing of Ursula K LeGuin, China Mieville, and a Silly Symphonies version of Baphomet

• Milan Kundera administering a grapefruit-sized progesterone suppository to Clive Barker

• The manic and paranoid recluse living in the house between N. K. Jemisin's modest castle and Adrian Tchaikovsky's beached yacht

• A singularity, but all the robots are Albert Camus trained exclusively on the nonpublished writings of Chuck Tingle

• Matt Dinniman repeatedly saying, "Please stop sending me your fan fic, it's highly disturbing," but still signing book