Toiya Kristen Finley

Toiya serves as an Executive Board Member of the Game Writing Special Interest Group of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA). She serves as advocate of the Game Writing SIG’s members with the aim to promote game writing and narrative design within the games industry. She assists SIG members with their initiatives and run programmes for the SIG. She is also a writer/editor for Schnoodle Media, specialising in fiction and non-fiction writing, game writing/narrative design, game design, copyediting, and substantive editing for various media. Toiya has recently published “The Game Narrative Toolbox”, which she co-authored with Ann Lemay, Jennifer Brandes Hepler, and Tobias Heussner.