Austin Seth Grossman (born June 26, 1969)[1] is an American author and video game designer.

He has contributed to The New York Times[2] and has written for a number of video games, most notably Deus Ex and Dishonored.

[citation needed] Grossman's father was born Jewish[5] and his mother was raised Anglican.

He currently teaches writing and narrative design at New York University Tisch School of the Arts.

[9] In 2021, he co-wrote an original audiobook for Audible called New Found Land: The Long Haul with Neal Stephenson and Sean Stewart, which the trio had developed as a story for AR company Magic Leap.