Jessica Lévai

Jessica Lévai has loved stories and the fantastic her whole life. She studied history and mathematics at The College of William and Mary and earned her PhD in Egyptology from Brown University. She remembers proudly that one week she passed exams in four kinds of Egyptian, Attic Greek, and German. For eight years she taught undergrads about ancient Egypt, mythology, and folklore, even creating a course about the roles of women in stories and as storytellers. She’s excited about the opportunities for collaborative story creation roleplaying games provide.
In 2016 she devoted herself to writing fantasy and horror fiction full-time. Her debut book, The Night Library of Sternedach: A Vampire Opera in Verse, won the Lord Ruthven Award for Fiction. She dreams of one day collaborating on a graphic novel, and meeting Stephen Colbert. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and two children.