Writers

Ana Valens

Ana Valens is a journalist for The Daily Dot. Her games criticism work has been seen on Rolling Stone, Vice, Unwinnable, and Fanbyte. In her free time, she develops queer adult games. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Julie Muncy

Julie Muncy is a writer, editor, and poet based in Austin, TX. In her spare time she builds mechanical keyboards as Keyboard Concierge. You can tell her how great she is on Twitter @juliemuncy23.

Nadia Shammas

Nadia Shammas is an Arab-American writer best known for SQUIRE, a Middle Eastern fantasy original graphic novel co-created with Sara Alfageeh and set to be released by HarperCollins in 2022. She is also the creator and curator of CORPUS: A Comic Anthology of Bodily Ailments which is centered around stories of mental and physical illness, disability, and healthcare experiences. You can find her asleep on the R Train over a stack of horror stories and cat food, and also (too often) on Twitter @Nadia_Shammas_.

Vivian Chan

Vivian Chan studied media studies in college, academic medicine in graduate school, and is a current psychiatry resident in New York City, where she resides with her partner and two cats. She enjoys narrative medicine, psychoanalysis, and exploring cross-disciplinary perspectives.

Ashley Oh

Ashley Oh is a writer, creator, and former longtime social manager for games and entertainment news outlets. Her work has appeared on Polygon, Vice, and Hard Drive.

Kaitlin Tremblay

Kaitlin Tremblay is lead narrative designer at Capybara Games in Toronto. Previously she was a team lead narrative designer at Ubisoft Toronto and the lead writer on A Mortician's Tale. Kaitlin is also a co-director of DMG, a not-for-profit creating space for queer and gender-marginalized people to create games freely.

Oliver Hong

Oliver Hong is an analog game designer based in Brooklyn, NY. He is the product of a number of unlikely coincidences and an alumni of the NYU Game Center. You can find his works at origamiandroid.com and follow him on Twitter @OrigamiAndroid.

Yussef Cole

Yussef Cole is a writer and motion graphic designer living in the Bronx, NY. He writes primarily about how video games intersect with broader cultural contexts such as class and race. His writing stems from an appreciation of the medium tied with a desire to tear it all down so that something better might be built.

Jess Erion

Jess Erion is a freelance writer and narrative designer currently located on the West Coast. They are completing an MFA in Game Design at NYU and working on a mobile game called Rhubarb Roastery. Much of their written and academic work focuses on dynamics of power and resistance, which they studied extensively throughout their undergraduate degree in English at Harvard. You can find their work on their website and their Twitter at @jjerion.

Mary Kenney

Mary Kenney is an award-winning game writer, narrative designer, and author. She’s part of the writing team for Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, is the author of upcoming YA book Game Changers (2022, Running Press), and was a lead writer on Telltale’s The Walking Dead series. She's also written comics in the universes of My Little Pony and Read Only Memories. In 2020, she was named a Forbes 30 Under 30 in Games and a BAFTA Breakthrough talent for her work on Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales.

Sharang Biswas

Sharang Biswas has won IndieCade and IGDN awards, and has showcased interactive works at institutions such as Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, NY; The Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, NY; and The Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, PA. His writing has appeared in Eurogamer, Unwinnable, First Person Scholar, and Fantasy Magazine, among other publications. He recently co-edited Honey & Hot Wax: An Anthology of Erotic Art Games (Pelgrane Press) and Strange Lusts / Strange Loves: An Anthology of Erotic Interactive Fiction (Strange Horizons, coming Fall 2021). You can find him on Twitter at @SharangBiswas, on Itch.io, or on his website.

Artists