As a risk-averse introvert, I have always been fascinated by the thrill-seekers. Why does anyone climb Everest when one in three climbers...

After spending six years of my childhood in Arizona, the western United States has always held a special place in my heart. After driving...

Due to time and energy constraints, I've been dipping into writing shorter pieces lately, from microfiction to poetry. I think it's a...

Alexandra is a 2023 IGDA Next Gen Leader Virtual Exchange grantee.

Writing spooky short stories about death gives me life, so when I heard that HamLit was making its triumphant return, I knew I had to pen...

Announcement trailer for Towerborne, the ARPG on which I've been working as a narrative designer at Stoic for the past year!

Excited to share that my short story, "A Very Old Friend," was included in Interconnectedness, the 2022 Whatcom WRITES short story...

"In the Deep" won the 2022 Dark Sire Creative Award for Psychological Realism!

Delighted to share that my short story about a fisherwoman's odd catch, "Harmony," is now available to read in HamLit's 2021 Fall issue:...

Vampires, sirens, and angels, oh my! After months of leading up this interactive novel adaptation as its narrative designer, I'm thrilled...

Writing to a theme is such a big help for me. There's something about having at least one parameter around a piece that helps guide my...

I'm always on the lookout for literary magazines that are interested in the odd and unusual. So, when I stumbled upon the eerie Coffin...

Lately I've been working on a variety of short stories in order to keep improving my writing skills as I work on long-term professional...

Today's the day -- Love and Electronic Affection: A Design Primer is now available! For this romance-focused volume, I contributed a...

Gah looks like my poem, "Leftover," is a Merit Winner of the 2020 Sue C. Boynton Poetry Contest! 🎉 Each year, two respected Whatcom...

This week, I was thrilled to serve as a panelist for "How to Build Your Network Through Speaking Engagements" on the Indie Game Business...

Update, March 20, 2020: I'm sad to report that ECGC, along with many other conferences and events, was cancelled this year due to the...

This year, I entered Cascadia Weekly''s annual Fiction 101 Competition, which asks local folks to write microfiction of 101 words or...

Overjoyed to share that my short story, "Manna is Where You Make It," was selected for publication in this year's Whatcom WRITES...

Excited to share that my short story, "The Other Side," is featured in HamLit's January 2020 issue, No Man's Land. I've been working on...

Thrilled to share the publication of The Encyclopedia of Sexism in American Films (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019), to which I...

Exciting news: my short story about getting lost on a Christmas tree farm was selected as a winner of Fairhaven Winterfest's first annual...

I'm thrilled to be taking part in PAX Dev for the fourth year in a row, this time alongside some exceedingly talented folks who are also...

Chapter publication alert! Excited to share that I wrote a chapter for a book that was published this month — Pop Culture Matters:...

Excited to share that I’ll be speaking at GDC 2019 alongside Heidi McDonald, Toiya K. Finley, Michelle Clough, and Patrick Coursey! Our...

Exciting news to share on the professional front: The talk that Boyan Radakovich and I proposed for PAX Dev 2018 got accepted! What: How...

The GDC 2018 organizers have officially posted recordings of the three talks in which I took part this year! Advocacy Microtalks: 20...

Many thanks to Rolling Stone and Glixel for covering my Game Developers Conference Game Narrative Summit talk on elevating existing...

In addition to delivering a solo talk at the GDC Game Narrative Summit this year (Beyond the Blue-Skinned Space Babe), I will also be...

I'm thrilled to share that I will be speaking at GDC 2018 as part of the Game Narrative Summit! I was honored to speak as part of the...

I'm excited to announce the publication of my chapter for the book Digital Love: Romance & Sexuality in Video Games (Taylor & Francis,...

Well, looks like this fall is going to be packed with speaking engagements - and I couldn't be more excited and grateful! I've just...

Excited to announce that I'll be speaking at the 2017 Northeast Popular & American Culture Association Conference in late October! My...

Thrilled to announce that Sonia Michaels & I will be speaking at GeekGirlCon this year! Our talk will focus on lessons that game...

Many thanks to the folks at State of Washington Worksource Redmond for inviting me to talk about self care, setting goals, and personal...

This past Monday, I was honored to speak at the AAUW Washington's STEM Scholars awards ceremony last night! The AAUW-WA honors...

I'm shocked and excited to announce that I am one of 36 mentees selected for the Diversity in Games Alliance's Amplifying New Voices...

Edit on 4/14/2017: You can now view our presentation on the GDC Vault! To do so, click the link below! GDC 2017: Get Noticed & Get Hired:...