2027 Guest of honor

Lifetime gamer, but also a Professor who seeks to engage students through creative simulations and scenarios, sometimes with game like elements. Teaches courses in sustainability, community and the environment at The Ohio State University.

Clif is a fiction and non-fiction author, songwriter, woodworker, and maker of bad puns. He’s sold stories to Unidentified Funny Objects, Atthis Arts, Deadfish, and Parsec Ink. His first novel, Promised Rewards, was published in 2022 by Dark Myth.

Addie J King is an attorney by day, author and editor by nights, evenings, weekends, and whenever she can find a spare moment. She is the author of THE GRIMM LEGACY series and THE HOCHENWALT FILES series available from Hydra Publications.

Rachel Thurston holds degrees in materials engineering and macromolecular science. By day, she works as a mad scientist at an undisclosed location, where she breaks things for a living. She also has a black belt in taekwondo, sings, reads, knits, and has an encyclopedic knowledge of Babylon 5.

Mark Anthony Arceño is a food and environmental anthropologist at The Ohio State University. In addition to his full-time role as the Senior Academic Program Coordinator in the Department of Comparative Studies, he is a lecturer in the Department of French and Italian and in Comparative Studies, where he developed a “serious” games course. Outside of teaching, Mark Anthony enjoys playing tabletop games (obviously), winegrowing research, watching movies, and baking and cooking for social media.

Lifetime gamer, but also a Professor who seeks to engage students through creative simulations and scenarios, sometimes with game like elements. Teaches courses in sustainability, community and the environment at The Ohio State University.