Jess Haskins is an editor, narrative designer, educator, and founder of The Game Editors. Her specialties are narrative design, world-building, and interactive storytelling; and she created the Game Editors to serve game devs and creative writers in digital and interactive media. Jess holds an MFA in Design & Technology from Parsons School of Design. She has a background in languages and literature, with a BA in French from Bard College. Her passion is in developing adventure games, and her credits include Lamplight City, The Longing, Hiveswap, and the upcoming Rosewater. Jess is a member of the Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA) and the International Game Developers Association (IGDA). She is also an adjunct game design professor at the NYU Game Center and previously taught game design at Parsons. She teaches and speaks about world-building, writing for games, diversity and representation, community, unionization, the New York game industry, and other topics.