Shalynn Franzen is an experienced creative writer, published poet, and gamer. She is a professional writer who specializes in fantasy and mythology. A longtime gamer, she favors games with elaborate plots and enjoyable villains like the Legend of Zelda series, though she has a fondness for quiet, life simulation games like Animal Crossing. She enjoys more than just the game, often diving into the lore surrounding the game's universe, crafting theories of the origin or decline of civilizations based on NPC dialogue and hidden clues in ruins. With a lasting love for board games and Dungeons and Dragons, she is part of a DnD campaign and participates in a video game club at a college in Virginia.