Wendell Piez was born in Germany to American parents, and took his first trans-Atlantic airplane flight at age three weeks. His early years were spent in Somerset (Massachussets), Kabul (Afghanistan) and Manila (the Philippines). A graduate of the American School in Japan, he went on to receive degrees in Classics (B.A., Ancient Greek) and English (Ph.D.). He has been an active member of the global Humanities Computing community since 1994; currently he serves as General Editor of DHQ (Digital Humanities Quarterly). Since 1998, he has worked at Mulberry Technologies, Inc., an XML consultancy based in Rockville, Maryland (USA). As an XML practitioner, he is known for his work with XSLT and SVG as well as his theoretical investigations.