Kris Bowser spent their childhood adventuring in the rocky hills and forests of Southern New England, trekking through woods and picking the wild blueberries that grow by lakes. Goblins taught them how to navigate spooky forests, and how to sneak into a dread wizard’s fortress to steal cheese.
Eventually, they attended school, where they learned that dystopia isn’t only found in the future. Though they were frequently told not to, at school Kris drew and wrote comics about time travel and the absurd tyranny of teachers and bus drivers. As it turns out, comics become writing if you drop the pictures, and so Kris began writing fiction. School was where they met their partner, a renegade gardener who knows the magic uses of plants. Instead of escaping school when they had the chance, Kris also attended college, where they made the dubious decision of studying English, a language they already knew how to read, speak, write, and curse in.
Eventually, Kris and their partner escaped the academic machine on an airship powered by speculative possibilities and crewed by clockwork monsters. Every so often, they glimpsed far-off winter towns full of lit windows and fireplace smoke curling into a cloudy evening’s sky. The imagined comforts of strangers’ hearths tugged against the song of adventure. In the single moment when day turns to night, Kris learned that other worlds exist tucked into corners and around bends.
Now in a rebel band of superheroes and outcasts, Kris’s coffee-activated superpower allows them to transform into a rush of wind and pass through locked doors. They think of themself as an intrepid adventurer, roaming with a sketchbook and a typewriter, hopping trains, wearing cargo pants, and running fast. Though, in reality, they are often caught in the disempowering and nefarious clutches of Mundane Problems and must send their characters to do their adventuring for them. Kris is possessed of the rebel do-it-yourself spirit, and while they like the idea of making their own clothes, they are too impatient for sewing.
Currently, Kris and their partner live in an old New England mill town, haunted by the spirits and shadows of machines and industry.