Jasmine Skye
Panelist
Jasmine Skye is a queer-romantic, grey-ace, bigender fantasy author who earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast Program. The author of Daughter of the Bone Forest and Daughter of the Cursed Kingdom, s/he especially loves to create magical worlds where LGBTQIA+ heroes persevere through hardships to claim their own happy endings.
Jasmine has a small menagerie of pets and a collection of hobbies including cosplay and figure skating. When s/he’s not writing, Jasmine does STEM outreach work with high schoolers across Texas.
5:00PM - 6:30PM EDT
Saturday July 11th
Painting the Scene: How to Describe with Voice and Clarity
A simple scene can be described in an infinite number of ways, but how do you make sure readers understand exactly what you want them to? And trickier yet, how do you make sure to do it in your voice (whatever that means!)? Join our panelists as they share what they have learned in their own writing experiences. (Moderator: Jonathan Nevair)