Klisoura

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Alex Osaki (born 6 August, 1985 in Baltimore, Maryland), more commonly known in the fandom as "Klisoura", is a writer, photographer, and amateur sociologist who currently resides in Lafayette, California, in the San Francisco Bay area. With friends Vulpecula and Ebon Scaled, he administers the FurIRC IRC system.

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Alex Osaki is a furry anthropologist, sociologist and writer. A longtime resident of Colorado, he moved to Lafayette, California in the fall of 2007 to take a job at a research firm.

Inside the fandom, he is an author, having written many highly-praised works, including the novella Sympathy for the Devil. He is a frequent poster on the message boards at Yiffstar, and since 2004 has run an IRC chatroom derived from that website.

Beyond writing, his primary focus within the fandom is an academic one. He holds a degree in anthropology with a focus on culture and gender studies and has attempted to bring a more scientific angle to the study of furriness. Since approximately 2000, he has sporadically worked on researching the furry fandom, and is behind a longterm surveying effort, entitled the Furry Survey. It originated as an attempt to dispel misconceptions about the fandom but has since become a more broad effort to gather data about it.