About - CtrlAltDelusion Press

The author(s) write from the frozen edge of Lake Superior about the systems that shape daily life and the people who maintain them. The work sits at the intersection of technology, power, and human dignity...not as abstractions but as things you can touch, break, and occasionally fix.

Susan Provost

Susan Provost writes from Minnesota. She is queer and unauthorized, and she has no interest in explaining herself further than that.

Her work sits at the friction point of gender and power, and the systems built to file people into categories they never agreed to. She likes space, the kind that swallows a signal and never apologizes for the silence.

She writes some books alone. Others, she writes with Joe Proveaux.

Joe Proveaux

Joe has spent twenty years inside the machine: help desks, server rooms, infrastructure architecture. He writes from Minnesota, on the cold side of Lake Superior, about technology, power, mutual aid, and the quiet politics of who keeps the lights on.

The Press

CtrlAltDelusion Press is the imprint they publish themself under. No staff. No board. The press exists so the work does not have to ask permission.

The Press

CtrlAltDelusion Press is an independent publishing project based in Minnesota. The work here is exploratory: not in the sense of wandering, but in the sense of going somewhere that doesn't rely on a map. Independent thinking, collaborative instincts, and years inside institutions that taught more by failing than by working. The books are about technology, power, and the quiet politics of keeping things running. Or by helping them fail, depending on, depending on your mood.