Katrina Archer

Katrina Archer is the author of dark fantasy The Tree of Souls and YA fantasy Untalented. A former software engineer, she has worked in aerospace, video games, and film, and is a freelance copy editor and publisher of climate fiction magazine Little Blue Marble. Katrina’s work was a 2016 Library Journal Indie Ebook Awards Honorable Mention (Young Adult). She is an alumnus of the Viable Paradise and Paradise Lost writing workshops, and a member of SFWA and Codex Writers. She can operate almost any vehicle that can’t fly, doesn’t believe in life without books or chocolate, and is the guardian of one sweet potato and one chaos goblin masquerading as cats. Connect with Katrina online at katrinarcher.com.

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Trauma and Time Travel

May 13, 2023 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm

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Panelists: Curtis C. Chen, Katrina Archer, R.S.A. Garcia, Samantha Mills and Joshua Bellin (moderator)
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In an era of mass shootings, violence by law enforcement, rising rates of suicide among young people, and other crises, issues of trauma and PTSD loom large. Time travel, a mainstay of speculative fiction for more than a century, can offer insight into and reflection on key aspects of trauma, such as bodily dissociation and perseverative memory. Members of the SFWA community discuss the roles sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and related genres play in conversations about trauma and PTSD.

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Virtual Reality and SFF Story-Sharing: The Meeting of Imagination and High-Tech

May 14, 2023 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

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Panelists: Anna Kashina, Katrina Archer, Erich Werner, Nan Klee and Angela Smith (moderator)
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Virtual reality is set to explode onto the gaming scene as is the conventional media industry in general. Writing science fiction often entails a vivid mental vision of characters engaged in a moving, very real, all-enveloping environment. So, how will this meeting of the imagination and high-tech living dreamscapes happen? Will novels step up from book, e-book, audiobook, to VR book? How can authors get their hands on (hands in!) VR products and the tech industry’s vision of the future might enlighten us all as to what to expect in our writing lifetime?

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Blood & Love: Writing Romance Amidst Violence

June 7, 2024 9:00 am to 10:00 am

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Panelists: Katelyn Brehm, Vela Roth, M. Verant, Taylor Munsell and Katrina Archer (moderator)
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How do you approach writing a romance when scary things are happening on the page? With the increasing popularity of horror-romance, romantasy, and dark romance, this panel looks at writing romantic storylines through the “darker” elements of the story.

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The Nexus Between Science Fiction and the Natural World

June 8, 2024 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm

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Panelists: Katrina Archer, Kelly Barnhill, Rajeev Prasad, Greg Leunig and James Sturz (moderator)
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This panel will discuss the nexus between science fiction and nature writing, and how science fiction and fantasy writers can explore earth’s own rich environment—while also telling readers more about where they live and the challenges facing our planet.

So many of us think of science fiction as occurring in space, in faraway galaxies, or on fantastical worlds. Or the stories are set on earth in scientific or magical environments in the present or future where discoveries or characters spin out of control, whether it’s “Frankenstein,” “I, Robot,” or even Harry Potter.

But another rich world exists here on earth, and it hasn’t been as nearly well explored. It’s the natural world, whether it’s the ocean,tropical islands, the planet’s core, jungles, and more.

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