Jim Munroe is a Canadian science fiction author, independent game developer, filmmaker, and cultural organizer.

Munroe was managing editor at the magazine Adbusters in the 1990s, before publishing his debut novel Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask in 1999.

[6] In 2022, he released We Are Raccoons, a science fiction novel about independent video game designers who accidentally create a superintelligence.

[11] In 2009, Munroe co-founded the Toronto-based Hand Eye Society, which supports the creation and appreciation of video games as an artistic medium.

[12] Munroe was the Artist-in-Residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2014, where he introduced interactive installations such as the Torontrons, classic arcade cabinets modified to showcase locally developed video games.