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Science Fiction & Fantasy
by Arley Sorg
Born in Malaysia, Cassandra Khaw grew up watching horror movies with their parents, from John Carpenter’s
The Thing to
Critters. When they got older, they got into Asian horror movies, such as
Shutter and
The Eye. Nonetheless, long before landing their first fiction sales, they were a tech and video game journalist. A hardcore geek at heart, they work full time now as lead writer for the North American edition of a game they still cannot talk about. They’ve written for venues such as
Ars Technica, Engadget, Eurogamer, Gamasutra, and
The Verge, and spent a decade traveling so often for work that they rarely spent more than a few months in any one continent. Games they contributed to include