Kacie is a PhD student in the English department at the University at Buffalo. She earned her BA in English and History at Henderson State University in Arkansas and her MA in English at West Virginia University. Her work examines how the entanglement of technology and participatory media cultures shape and influence cultural and embodied politics. Kacie sometimes makes hypertext games, which you can play at https://kapatin.itch.io/. Kacie also sometimes vibecodes, and you can keep up with these endeavors by checking out her indie website at https://kapatin.neocities.org/