Sasha Reneau (they/them) designs and illustrates tabletop and video games that play with fatalism, mental health, and the antagonistic limits of human-operated systems. Armed with a cocktail of 3 years on testosterone and 30 years dealing with chronic mental illness, Sasha leverages a Bachelor's Degree in Digital Media towards reflective, generated-by-hand tabletop roleplaying games like Spindlewheel; towards horrifying moral quandaries mixed with humor in animatic ambitions like Candy Vampire; and towards ideas of the Monstrous Divine with their illustrations of angel trueforms. Sasha's roots stand astride history, tracing back to Russian Jews fleeing imperial pogroms, and English colonists razing the land that would become America. From their home in Los Angeles, they bear witness as the pretense of democracy melts off the US's skull.

Reneau will be reciving programing support by Sasha Poujlivaia, a cryptid last spotted in the Bay Area, only ever seen in the dappled light of her garden, between the ears of friendly cats, or haunting renowned museums. Legend has it she can be lured out of hiding with the promise of a dark cave, a shiny sword, or the mention of any strange hobby last popular in the 1800s. She likes long cold walks on the beach, dismantling late stage capitalism, and curling up with a good book. She has wrangled computers from a bitter age and is cursed with programmer's hands that she keeps in a jar by the door.

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