Detekted: Alya Demina

I'm a writer and game designer. My short stories appeared in Intrinsick, Potato Soup Journal, Calliope and other publications, and two of them won honorable mention and silver honorable mention at the Writes of the Future contest. I also designed and wrote branching stories at Netflix and consulted a number of startups on narrative design.

I love playing with words: I pile them up in odd combinations and among that strangeness, find the meaning. Some of my favorite writers are well-known for reassembling reality in this way: Lewis Carroll, Douglas Adams and Yasutaka Tsutsui, the author of Paprika.

In addition to writing ridiculous vignettes and making silly movies about skeletons, I host an absurd linguistic improv group, Unreliable Narrators (aren't we all?). We have in-person meetups in Austin, TX - do join us on Discord if you’re here!

Welcome to my surreal mindspace!