Arinn Dembo

Arinn Dembo has been a professional writer since 1991. Her articles, criticism and reviews of all popular media have appeared in a variety of print and web publications, including The New York Review of Science Fiction, CNet, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, H.P. Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror, and many other magazines and anthologies.

Since 1996 she has worked as a developer in the computer gaming industry, contributing to a number of popular games for the PC, including Homeworld, Homeworld: Cataclysm, Ground Control, and Arcanum: of Steamworks and Magick Obscura. In 2004 she became the Lead Writer of Kerberos Productions, an independent game development studio in Vancouver, British Columbia and developed a number of popular fictional universes for the company, including the cult indie horror game Fort Zombie and the celebrated Sword of the Stars franchise.

In the past ten years she has written English-language screenplays for two animated series, World Trigger and Metalions, and contributed to two projects in the field of Artificial Intelligence. From 2020 - 2022, she was the President of SF Canada, the national professional association for authors of speculative fiction.

She holds degrees in both Anthropology and Classical Archaeology, and lives in Vancouver, British Columbia with her family and a menagerie of pets.