Nat Mesnard is a game designer and writer based in NYC, and a co-founder of Scryptid Games. They have published poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in Edge Effects, Evergreen Review, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Autostraddle, Blackbird, Kenyon Review Online, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. Nat’s game Banned Together, co-designed with Elana Bell Bogdan as Unquiet Games, was a recipient of funding from the NYU Game Center Incubator in 2024-25, and their tabletop roleplaying games have won multiple ENNIE Awards. They teach interactive fiction at Columbia University and for the literary magazine One Story; Nat also freelances in the tabletop industry, working with 9th Level Games, Restoration Games, and Black Oak Workshop to bring roleplaying games, board games, and game accessories successfully to market.