About

Photograph of Katherine Crighton sitting in a chair in a hotel room, focused on writing in a small notebook. They are wearing a panelist badge for Readercon 2024.

~Sometimes I write things.

More specifically, I write fiction (fantasy, science fiction, horror, romance!), I write nonfiction, and I have some things that slide between the two (particularly in the nonfiction academic work).

Figure 1. Photograph by Pippin Macdonald, July 2024, in my Pro Writer cosplay at Readercon. (See my About page for a dedicated press kit.)

Publications

Fiction

Interactive Fiction and Digital Literature
  • “3. An Evening Party,” The Puzzling History of His Majesty’s Botanical Society, WPI Interactive Media and Game Development program, Fall 2023
  • “Interlude: Avant La Soirée,” The Puzzling History of His Majesty’s Botanical Society, WPI Interactive Media and Game Development program, Fall 2023
  • “2. Le Voyage de Noces,” The Puzzling History of His Majesty’s Botanical Society, WPI Interactive Media and Game Development program, Fall 2023
  • “1. The Language of Flowers,” The Puzzling History of His Majesty’s Botanical Society, WPI Interactive Media and Game Development program, Fall 2023
Immersive Narrative
Novels
  • Blood and Salt, Book 2 of the Door-world, coauthored with Anna Genoese under the name Anna Katherine, 2014
Short Fiction
  • “Customer Service,” The Operator Series: 4, under the name Kitty Austen, April 2016
  • “Breaking the Rules,” The Operator Series: 3, under the name Kitty Austen, January 2016
  • “Repeat Customer,” The Operator Series: 2, under the name Kitty Austen, May 2015
  • “First Time Caller,” The Operator Series: 1, under the name Kitty Austen, May 2015
  • “The Invasion,” Katherine Crighton’s blog, April 2015
  • “The Inside and the Outside,” Nightmare Magazine, “Women Destroy Horror!” Special Edition, October 2014
  • “The Children’s Land,” Wisdom Crieth Without, January 2014
  • “Iwa,” set in Salt and Silver‘s Door-world, coauthored with Anna Genoese under the name Anna Katherine, 2009

Nonfiction and Public Scholarship

Books
Articles
Zines
  • Cookery of Food and Drink, Volume 3 of The Apothecary’s Pocket Companion, writing as M. Hinaccurate, The Historically Inaccurate Press, 2026
  • The Book of Were-wolves, abridged from Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould’s The Book of Were-wolves, Book 3 of The Cunning Library: works of public domain magic and folklore, The Historically Inaccurate Press, 2026
  • Medieval Monsters Looking for Love, coloring book series, The Historically Inaccurate Press, 2025
  • Monition of Cursing, abridged and translated from the Archbishop of Glasgow’s Monition of Cursing, Book 2 of The Cunning Library: works of public domain magic and folklore, The Historically Inaccurate Press, 2025
  • The Principles of Magic, abridged from Sir James George Frazer’s The Golden Bough, Book 1 of The Cunning Library: works of public domain magic and folklore, The Historically Inaccurate Press, 2023

Academia

Posters
  • Crighton, Katherine, Naomi Jacobs, Shivhan Szabo. “Faking and Re-Making: The Use of Emotional Responses and Creative Resonances in Communal Multimedia Storytelling,” Fan Studies Network North America 2023, October 2023.
    • Digital poster with embedded interactive fiction story “Building the Spear“
    • Related works include a video article in Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 42, 2024
Journal Articles
  • Crighton, Katherine, Naomi Jacobs, and Shivhan Szabo. 2024. “Building the Spear: A Demonstration in Faking and Remaking Real Feelings for an Imaginary Work.” In “Fandom and Platforms,” edited by Maria K. Alberto, Effie Sapuridis, and Lesley Willard, special issue, Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 42. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2024.2623.
Papers
  • “Entering an Apothecary’s Dream: The Making of an Arts & Sciences Installation,” graduate capstone report to qualify for Master of Fine Arts, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, April 2026

Reviews and News

Reviews (collection of quotes from reviews for fiction/nonfiction/academic work)

Appearances (where I’m going, where I’ve been)

Interviews and Guest Posts (links to outside magazines and blogs)

Writing about Writing

A starter kit of posts about the craft and/or business of writing:

Writing funny

It is sometimes said that you can’t teach someone how to write comedy. I think that’s a bit silly, though — I think it’s more…

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