Katherine Crighton is a genre writer and academic of interactive media with over 25 years of experience in writing, publishing, and odd art. They have a spectrum of fiction publications under their belt, all of which can be found through their bibliography at katherinecrighton.com--the highlights at the moment are the 2024 Indicade Festival-nominated interactive experience Memoirscape, for which they were the narrative consultant and ephemera developer, and the science fiction flash story, "How to Win Against the Robots," forthcoming from Lightspeed in July 2025.
Over in nonfiction/academia, Katherine is currently a graduate student in Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Interactive Media and Game Design program. In 2023 they presented "Faking and Re-Making: The Use of Emotional Responses and Creative Resonances in Communal Multimedia Storytelling" with co-authors Dr. Naomi Jacobs and Shivhan Szabo (Fan Studies Network North America, October 2023), and a related work, "Building the Spear: A Demonstration in Faking and Remaking Real Feelings for an Imaginary Work", came out shortly afterward in "Fandom and Platforms" (special issue, Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 42, 2024). Forthcoming in October 2025 will be their capstone project: an interactive installation highlighting Katherine's study and reconstructions of Early Modern humoral and chemical recipes from the 1480s to the 1710s.
And finally, Katherine: is one of the sibling presenters on the No Story Is Sacred narrative-engineering podcast; has developed a novel Loch Ness Monster theory for which a paper is being written, and; accidentally grew a second thyroid over the course of the last four years, which seems like an achievement that no one was looking for.