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Caitlin Fisher is a Canadian media artist, poet, writer, futurist and Professor of Cinema and Media Arts at York University in Toronto where she also directs the Immersive Storytelling Lab and the Augmented Reality Lab. Fisher is also a Co-founder of York’s Future Cinema Lab, former Fulbright and Canada Research Chair, and an international award-winning digital storyteller. Creator of some of the world’s first AR poetry and long-from VR narratives. Pioneer of research-creation who defended Canada's first born-digital dissertation. Member of the early AR artist collective Manifest AR.[1] Fisher is also known for the 2001 hypermedia novel These Waves of Girls,[2] and for her work creating content and software for augmented reality.[3] "Her work is poetic and exploratory, currently combining the development of authoring software with evocative literary constructs."[4]