Jemma Everyhope-Roser, MFA

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About

Jemma Everyhope-Roser is an instructor at Western Washington University. She graduated with her MFA in Creative Writing from Western in June 2023. She is a working video game writer, specializing in interactive fiction with branching narratives. Her current projects include an interactive autobiography, which she is writing, drawing and animating, and coding; and a non-narrative game for which she is the creative director. 
 

Research Interests

  • Drafting engaging characters that are emergent from speculative settings as a form of environmental narrative
  • Gender, sexuality, and the ramifications of choice/interactivity on woman-identifying audiences
  • Non-traditional workshopping
  • How genre and form as practices construct content
  • Historical antecedents of contemporary romantic and speculative fiction
  • Basic composition as a form of creative writing
  • Forms of professional writing in terms of rhetorical practices