Brigitte Winter is a novelist writing fabulist fiction about your favorite monster ex-girlfriends. She also writes narrative games, poetry, and short fiction. The capacity of storytelling to connect, inspire, and incite is central to Brigitte’s art and her activism, and she makes art that is queer, feminist, intimate, and deliciously weird. Her most recent short story, Redo, was published by PodCastle in March 2025, and her fiction has also appeared in City of Weird: 30 Otherworldly Portland Tales and New Year, New You: A Speculative Anthology of Reinvention. Her poetry was most recently featured in Yellow Arrow: Amplify 2024. She was a 2023 Dicebreaker Tabletop Awards Finalist for Designer of the Year, and her first full-length TTRPG, Psychic Trash Detectives, won the 2024 CRIT Award for Best Indie TTRPG and Best Cover Art. She was shortlisted for the 2025 Uncharted Magazine Cinematic Short Story Contest, and she was a 2024 PNWA Literary Awards Finalist. She is also a 2023 alumna of Viable Paradise and a member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association and the Horror Writers Association. Brigitte lives in Maryland with her partner and six rescue animals.