Archives: Teachers/Speakers

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

Diego, known as @Agitprop_poet, crafts verse that agitates, illuminates, and refuses to look away. His poetry blends political urgency with lyrical precision, drawing from lived experience, collective memory, and radical

Connor Watkins-Xu holds a BA in Professional Writing from Baylor University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Maryland, where he taught creative and academic writing. His

Asha Dore is a writer and illustrator working on a book about fawning. Bylines include The New York Times, The Cut, and Slate. She hosts “Totally Biased Reviews,” a literary interview podcast. Her