Archives: Teachers/Speakers

Paxton is an artist, writer and game designer who has worked at the technical intersection of story and play both professionally and independently. Their interactive audio dramas have been published

Autumn's works range from dating sims to historical political simulations, including Social Democracy: An Alternate History, and The Archivist and the Revolution, which received an IGF Honorable Mention for Excellence

Erin Roberts is a writer of stories and games, including published pieces of interactive fiction in Sub-Q and Strange Horizons and Forge Your Quest, a fully-voiced interactive audio story for children.

Shana E. Hadi works as a design technologist by day, an indie game developer by night, and a writer by twilight. Previously, she built newsroom tools and visualizations to communicate

Whitney is an award-winning narrative designer currently working on Cyberpunk 2 at CD Projekt Red. She is best known for the games Bluebeard's Bride and HoloVista.

Jesse is a long time game master, creator, and chronic overcommitter. He is delighted to join this ensemble as co-GM.

Nadine Antoinette Maestas is a poet's poet and believes that the empire of the sentence is an extremely oppressive totalitarian regime. She prefers the company of poems so much that she

Eric Michael Acosta is a poet living in Seattle. His debut collection Motion Flesh is out through Chat Room Books (2023). His follow-up Underbelly is out through Carbonation Press (2024).

Marianne is a musician and mixed-media experimenter from Hermosillo, MX. Their work serves as a vessel of self-discovery that explores regret, change, nostalgia, and liberation. Marianne finds the challenge of

Xóchilt Martinez is a Seattle born and raised poet and spoken word artist of Nicaraguan and Mexican heritage. Growing up queer and Latino in this primarily white city, in primarily