Kris Bowser has spent her life adventuring in the rocky hills and forests of Southern New England. School showed her that dystopia isn’t only found in the future, but goblins taught her the skills that school couldn’t: navigating spooky forests; sneaking into a wizard’s fortress to steal cheese; lighting a fire with smoke that curls invitingly into a cloudy evening’s sky; and finding other worlds that exist tucked into corners and around bends. She also attended college, where she studied English, a language she already knew how to read, speak, write, and curse in.Along with her partner, a renegade gardener who knows the magic uses of plants, Kris is in a rebel band of superheroes and outcasts. She thinks of herself as an intrepid adventurer, roaming with a sketchbook and a typewriter, hopping trains, wearing cargo pants, and running fast. Though in reality, she is often caught in the disempowering and nefarious clutches of Mundane Problems, and must send her characters to do her adventuring for her.Currently, Kris and her partner live in an old New England mill town, haunted by the spirits and shadows of machines and industry.