Games
Project Sirius
CD Projekt Red
A new AAA title in The Witcher IP
Specialist Writer
Unannounced
Independent
A folklore-driven adventure RPG where your choices literally shape your world.
Writer
Vamp Noir
Independent
A narrative-forward detective game set in a retro-futuristic world, featuring a hard-boiled lesbian vampire detective
Writer + Project Lead
FairWeather Manor
Dziobak Studios
A Downton-Abbey-esque blockbuster LARP for 135-150 people set in 1917, played at the Polish castle Zamek Moszna
Character Writer
Gangs of Birmingham
Dziobak Studios
A Peaky Blinders-inspired blockbuster LARP
Character Writer
Current solo-dev projects
– Ghostless: A tiny 2D RPG about returning home, anxiety, and lost chances
– The Gods Are Bored: A tongue-in-cheek visual-novel-style game about Foible, the god of regrets and mistakes…making regrettable mistakes! Also, hunting down cursed objects
Behind you!
Independent
A tiny horror Twine game about being alone in space (or so you thought)
Writer
Samples
1
Quest Script: ‘Unannounced RPG’
A script for a branching, character-driven side quest from an indie game in development.
-> Google doc
2
Character Sheets: “Gangs of Birmingham”
Player-facing write-ups for original characters on this blockbuster LARP
-> Google docs
3
Script: ‘Vamp Noir’
An excerpt from early scenes of a narrative-forward detective game
-> Google Doc
4
Game Bible: ‘Vamp Noir’
A PDF booklet I wrote to give an overview of this in-development game to new team members and partners
-> Download
Selected Publications
Pajiba
‘The Women Are the Problem’: The Enduring Mistake of ‘Nosferatu’ and Misogyny – essay
No, ‘The Substance’ Does Not Hate Demi Moore – essay
I’m Getting Real Tired of ‘Don’t Believe This Woman’ True Crime – review
‘May December’ Is One of the Best True Crime Movies Ever – review
The Nerds Are Rising: TTRPGs and TV – essay
‘Tár’ and the Language of Prestige – essay
Emily Blunt’s ‘The English’ Is a Brilliant Reincarnation of the Western – review
‘Blonde’ Is a Horror Story, Both Monumental and Deeply Uncomfortable – review
No, Having a Baby in America Isn’t Terrifying at All: ‘Our Father’ and a Failure of Legal Protections – review
“Humans Are the Actual Worst!”: Love, Death & Robots season 3 – review
The Unacknowledged Shirley Jackson Adaptation You Didn’t Know You Missed – essay
Robert Eggers’ Witchy Goodness & Feminine Monsters – essay
The Tender Art of Not Being A Jackass – essay
Are the Straights OK? Making a Spectacle of Gaslit Women for the Sake of Denouncing Asshole Men– review
Full archive
Ms Magazine
The Pioneering Black Sci-Fi Writer Behind the Original Wakanda – essay
New Work on Gender from MIT – essay
Let Us Now Praise Brutal Women – essay
Daisies in the Age of Trump – essay
BUST Magazine
Kristen Stewart Crushes It As Princess Diana In “Spencer” – review
“Promising Young Woman” Is Exactly What It Needs To Be – review
In “On The Rocks,” Love Is Twisted, Rationalized, And Complex – review
Cults Going Corporate: Why The NXIVM Story Feels So Familiar – essay/review
Sofia Coppola’s “Beguiled” Tears Apart the Original – review
Bitch Media
Great American Nowhere: “Nomadland” Is the Movie “Hillbilly Elegy” Wants to Be – review
In Favor of the Queer Mediocrity of “Ammonite”– review
Atticus Review
Rejecting the Story: A Review of Leaving Neverland – review
Magic and Homage in Hill House – review
Choosing the Face We See – review
MIT News
Transformative truth-telling at the MIT Open Documentary Lab – profile
Technology of Enchantment – profile
Communities in the Cloud – profile
Spenser’s Faerie Queene as a modern visual comic – profile
Looking at Justice Through the Lens of Political Theory – profile
Cineaste Magazine
The Cinema of Discomfort: Disquieting, Awkward and Uncomfortable Experiences in Contemporary Art and Indie Film – review, Fall 2022 issue
Breakwater Review
Faith in Chaos: A review of Josephine Yu’s Prayer Book of the Anxious – review
Boston Hassle
Scorpio’s Resurrection: The Best Secret Show Series In Boston – review
Frankie and the Witch Fingers Open Up the Throttle on the Rockwell – review
Guess What? You Like Disco Now. Lucius at Roadrunner – review
Altin Gün Melts Minds at the Sinclair – review
Fabulously New: A review of Play the Part from Phil and the Flying Leap – review
Comics MNT
The Final Issue of Paper Girls Strikes the Perfect Balance – review
Z Publishing
Massachusetts’s Emerging Writers – fiction
The Establishment
On November 9th – essay
Origins Literary Journal
Battle Horn Blow – poetry
Burningword Literary Journal
Smoke Break – poetry
Daphne Magazine
Cardiac Overnight – poetry
The Critical Flame
Two Dozen Dancers: Representing a Masterpiece – essay
The Female Gaze
Specters in Residence: Gardner & Guggenheim – essay
Alison Lanier 