Leon Perniciaro (he/him) is the editor of Haven Spec Magazine, an English PhD candidate at the University of Connecticut, and a member of the Game Design and Development faculty at Quinnipiac University. His academic research centers on intersections of Indigeneity, race, and the environment, especially through rhetorics of apocalypse and forms of material and social extraction. A citizen of the Choctaw-Apache Tribe of Ebarb and a New Orleanian, he now resides in New England, where he's terrified of both the climate crisis and the Great Filter. Follow him on Bluesky @leonp.