Emma Kidwell is an award-nominated writer and narrative designer currently at Firaxis. Her
work has been exhibited at Different Games, Wordplay, Game Developers of Color Expo, and Pixel Pop Festival. She was interviewed for the New York Times about her work and was listed in Forbes 30 under 30 2021 for Games and inducted into The Future Class of 2023. The game she wrote on, Hindsight, was nominated at The Game Awards 2022 under the Games for Impact category.
Kidwell previously worked at Hangar 13 and was involved in the narrative department at Riot Games. She has also consulted for ProbablyMonsters and worked with DontNod as script supervisor on Life is Strange 2.
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