Devon Oratz

Devon Oratz obviously likes Shadowrun! Equally obviously, he is a professional nerd, or the closest one can be to that. He has been doing writing compulsively since the age of five. and graduated in 2008 from the Charles & Lily Lieb Port Creative Writing program at the State University of New York at Purchase--his first published work came out the same year in the spring issue of Space and Time Magazine.

From 2011 to 2016 Devon worked for Catalyst Game Labs on the Shadowrun roleplaying game. During this time he got to publish fiction in The Clutch of Dragons, Microfiction in Splintered State, a ton of adventures and fluff in a bunch of sourcebooks, some neat meta-fiction in Storm Front, and most recently his second full length story in Drawing Destiny, joining Jennifer Brozek, John Helfers, Michael A. Stackpole (holy drek!!), Jason M. Hardy, and R.L. King in the Sixth World Tarot Anthology!

From 2012 to 2017 Devon was one half of End Transmission Games LLC, an indie publisher of tabletop roleplaying games, written by Devon and funded and brought to life by Mikaela Barree. Together they published Psionics, SPLINTER, The Singularity System, Phantasm (2010), and Anathema, with Devon acting as line developer and lead editor for a total of three game lines and three game systems. ETG's last release was the standalone science fiction RPG Systems Malfunction.

Devon is trying to release his first novel Vampires Will Never Hurt You this Halloween. He has been working on it for about 15 years. The title is very sarcastic.

Devon frantically hopes that he has a lifetime of writing ahead of him, and is working equally frantically to make it so. He currently lives in the eerily eventful town of {Undisclosed}, with one very pampered pup.