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Cassandra Khaw (born 31 August 1984) is a Malaysian writer of horror and
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. They also create video games and tabletop games, and formerly wrote about them as a games and tech journalist.


Biography

Cassandra Khaw was born in
Malaysia Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...
on 31 August 1984 as Zoe Khaw Joo Ee. They work as a horror and
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writer for
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, tabletop RPGs, short stories and novels. Their articles and stories have been published in such magazines as
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, ''Clarkesworld'', ''Fireside Fiction'', ''
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'', and ''Nature''. Their video game writing appears in ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'' and ''
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''. Khaw works for
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as a scriptwriter. Khaw has stated they use they/them pronouns.


Awards and nominations


Bibliography


Novels

* ''The All-Consuming World'' (2021) * ''The Dead Take the A Train'' (with Richard Kadrey) (2023) * '' Critical Role: Bells Hells–What Doesn't Break'' (2024)


Gods & Monsters: Rupert Wong

* ''Rupert Wong, Cannibal Chef'' (2015) * ''Rupert Wong and the Ends of the Earth'' (2017) * ''The Last Supper Before Ragnarok'' (2019) * ''Food of the Gods'' (2017)


Anthologies

* ''Southeast Asian Urban Anthologies'' * ''Flesh: A Southeast Asian Urban Anthology'' (2016) with Angeline Woon * ''A Darker Shade: New Stories of Body Horror from Women Writers'' (2023)


Chapbooks

* ''Bearly a Lady'' (2017)


Born to the Blade

* ''Baby Shower'' (2018) * ''Dreadnought'' (2018)


Persons Non Grata

* ''Hammers on Bone'' (2016) * ''A Song for Quiet'' (2017)


Collections

* ''Breakable Things'' (2022)


Short fiction

* "Disconnect" (2014) * "What the Highway Prefers" (2015) * "Red String" (2015) * "An Ocean of Eyes" (2015) * "In the Rustle of Pages" (2015) * "Her Pound of Flesh" (2015) * "The Man Who Buys Giggles" (2015) * "When We Die on Mars" (2015) * "Clown Shoes" (2016) * "Every Instance of You" (2016) * "The Games We Play" (2016) * "Breathe" (2016) * "Some Breakable Things" (2016) * "Speak" (2016) * "The Price of Small Joys" (2016) * "Degrees of Beauty" (2016) * "And in Our Daughters, We Find a Voice" (2016) * "For the Things We Never Said" (2016) * "Hungry Ghosts" (2016) * "What to Do When It's Nothing but Static" (2017) * "Goddess, Worm" (2017) * "The Ghost Stories We Tell Around Photon Fires" (2017) * "Radio Werewolf" (2017) * "The Day They Found the Train" (2017) * "Saudade" (2017) * "Bearly a Lady" (2017) * "Custom-Made" (2017) * "I Built This City for You" (2017) * "Masterclass" (2017) * "These Deathless Bones" (2017) * "The Truth That Lies Under Skin and Meat" (2017) * "Degrees of Ellision" (2017) * "Don't Turn on the Lights" (2017) * "Kiss, Don't Tell" (2017) * "A Secret of Devils" (2017) * "Landmark" (2017) * "The Quiet Like a Homecoming" (2018) * "A Priest of Vast and Distant Places" (2018) * "You Do Nothing but Freefall" (2018) with A. Maus * "She Who Hungers, She Who Waits" (2018) * "How the Spider Got Her Legs" (2018) * "Four Revelations from the Rusalka Ball" (2018) * "Recite Her the Names of Pain" (2018) * "And Was Jerusalem Builded Here?" (2018) * "Shooting Iron" (2018) with Jonathan L. Howard * "Bargains by the Slant-Light" (2018) * "Monologue by an unnamed mage'', recorded at the brink of the end (2018) * "Unbowed" (2018) * "Nepenthe" (2019) * "What We Have Chosen to Love" (2019) * "Mighty Are the Meek and the Myriad" (2019) * "Nothing But Blackened Teeth" (2021) * "The Salt Grows Heavy" (2023) * "Cinders" (2023)


Poems

* ''Protestations Against the Idea of Anglicization'' (2017) * ''My Mama'' (2017) * ''Apathetic Goblin Nightmare Woman'' (2017) * ''Found Discarded: A Love Poem, Questionably Addressed.'' (2018) * ''Octavia's Letter to Marcus Anthony on the Discovery of His Faithlessness'' (2018) * ''A Letter from One Woman to Another'' (2019) * ''Instructions for When You've Endured as Much as You Can'' (2019)


Tabletop games

* '' Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft'' (writer,
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, 2021) * '' Critical Role: Call of the Netherdeep'' (writer, Wizards of the Coast, 2022)


Video games

* ''She Remembered Caterpillars'' (2017) * '' Where the Water Tastes Like Wine'' (2018) * '' Sunless Skies'' (2019) * ''Falcon Age'' (2019) * '' Hyper Scape'' (2020) * '' Wasteland 3'' (2020) * '' Gotham Knights'' (2022) * '' World of Horror'' (co-writer, 2023)


References


External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Khaw, Cassandra 1984 births Living people Malaysian writers Malaysian expatriates in Canada Video game critics Video game writers