Kaitrin Acuna (she/they) is an artist, writer, activist, and immersive event creator.

Born in Connecticut to Irish and Quechua Peruvian parents, a young Kaitrin fed herself a steady diet of fantasy novels and fae worlds. From childhood, she promised herself she would have as many adventures and craft as many impossible ideas as life allowed.

In the ten years after receiving her BFA in Photography, Kaitrin has traveled to 30 countries and lived on four continents. In her twenties, she worked as a photojournalist, an artist residency manager, and mostly as a full time, freelance artist. She drove a rainbow-painted van, lost her hair to alopecia and grew it all back, and taught herself to write, and rewrite, and rewrite.

Nowadays, back in New England in a little house filled as a treasure box of travels and books, she has found a niche producing events, creating photoshoots, and working with authors, all within the fantasy genre.

This has come about through a lifetime love of the genre, and from the fact that always, on every continent, between every adventure, Kaitrin has been working on “The Book,” the project she hopes will one day be her greatest contribution to the genre.

Kaitrin is a co-founder of the New England Fantasy Community, and has worked with the Hugo Awards, Nebula Awards, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, and several literary balls and conventions throughout New England and the United States.

If you need help designing, documenting, or marketing your event or book, Kaitrin will be ready with a hundred ideas. If you have wacky ideas or stupid questions or unlikely dreams, Kaitrin just might befriend you for life.