Katrina Archer

Katrina Archer is the author of dark fantasy The Tree of Souls and YA fantasy Untalented. A former software engineer, Katrina 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 and is the guardian of one sweet potato and one chaos goblin posing as cats.

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Trauma and Time Travel

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

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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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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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