Katherine Crighton is a genre writer, researcher, narrative consultant, and physical-media artist who is also, as of May 2026, a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Interactive Media and Game Design program.
Katherine has a variety of fiction publications and other oddities under their belt, all of which can be found through their site katherinecrighton.com, but their most recent work relates to their graduate capstone project, the October 2025 three-day art/experience installation, An Apothecary Dreams: an interactive time capsule inventing science past, present, and beyond, based on Katherine's experimental research reconstructing Early Modern household apothecary.
A link to the digital archive of the installation, as well as information about its exhibition book (Entering an Apothecary's Dream: The Making of an Arts & Sciences Installation) can be found through Katherine's site, but the final element of the project can't be found there. Attendees of 2025's Readercon 24 may remember messages they wrote for a 500-year time capsule; those messages were displayed as part of An Apothecary Dreams and have now, along with others collected, been donated to WPI's George C. Gordon Library inside a time capsule intended for the year 2525. (Katherine would feel a little bad about giving several centuries' worth of responsibility to people who maybe had better things to do, but to be honest, they seem pretty excited about becoming a multigenerational cult of secretive guardian archivists, so it'll probably be fine.)
Future work is likely to include "cultivated serendipity" as an artistic practice and research method, stage magic and the application of its "showmanship" methods in narrative and experience design, and using folklore and grey literature as weighted evidence of a novel theory for the Loch Ness monster.