Brigitte Winter (she/her)

Writer. Photographer. Game designer. Co-founder of Scryptid Games.

Brigitte Winter (she/her) is a writer, photographer, award-winning narrative game designer, and a Co-Founder of Scryptid Games, a TTRPG studio and publisher creating innovative narrative games that encourage aspirational, immediate, and collaborative storytelling. She is also the Executive Director of Young Playwrights’ Theater, an organization dedicated to inspiring young people to realize the power of their voices through creative writing.

Brigitte was a 2023 Dicebreaker Tabletop Awards Finalist for Designer of the Year, and her first full-length TTRPG, Psychic Trash Detectives, won the 2024 CRIT Award for Best Indie TTRPG and Best Cover Art. Her most recent short story, Redo, will be published by PodCastle in 2025, and her fiction has also appeared in City of Weird: 30 Otherworldly Portland Tales, Enter the Apocalypse, Queer Sci Fi: Renewal, and New Year, New You: A Speculative Anthology of Reinvention. Her unpublished novel, The Normal Monster Club, was a 2024 PNWA Literary Awards Finalist.The capacity of storytelling to connect, inspire, and incite is central to Brigitte’s art and her activism, and she consumes and creates stories that are queer, feminist, intimate, and deliciously weird.

Find her online at brigittewinter.com.