Dez Deshaies is a writer and game designer from Chicago, IL. His work has appeared in Menacing Hedge and been exhibited at The Adler Planetarium and The Orlando Museum of Art. He is the series editor of Youth Voices, a compendium of writing by Chicago-area high school students, and he is the developer of the narrative game Ancestors. 

 

Outside of his work, Deshaies destroys his ankles playing soccer and his ears going to pop shows.

 

He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from Brown University, and is currently pursuing a MFA in Creative Writing at The University of Central Florida. He is on Instagram and Twitter as @dezdeshaies. 

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