Meguey Baker

Meguey Baker is a roleplaying game designer and independent publisher. She is the author of "A Thousand and One Nights" based on the collection of Arabic stories, "The Book of One Thousand and One Nights". She was born in 1971 in upstate New York, where she started playing roleplaying games in 1978, and she currently resides in Greenfield Massachusetts. She is the mother of three children, and her husband, Vincent Baker, is also a roleplaying game designer. Baker is currently working on Miss Schiffer's School for Young Ladies of Quality, an rpg set in the 1890s at a finishing school for ladies of a certain type.

Baker studied American History at Hampshire College with a focus on American Women's History. She is a quilter and quilt historian, particularly interested in how the history of non-dominant voices gets transmitted in objects and oral tradition rather than the official written history. Baker co-writes [http://www.fairgame-rpgs.com/ Fair Game] , with Emily Care Boss a blog-style design and roleplaying theory journal. She is the founding owner of Night Sky Games. Baker is an activist providing advocacy and support for mothers via MotherWoman Inc.

Roleplaying bibliography

*One Thousand and One Nights: a game of enticing stories.

External links

* [http://www.nightskygames.com/ Night Sky Games] , Baker's independent publishing company.
* [http://www.fairgame-rpgs.com/ Fair Game] , Baker's design and theory journal co-authored by Emily Care Boss.
* [http://www.motherwoman.org/ MotherWoman Inc] , a mother's advocacy and support organization of which Baker is a certified facilitator and board member.