Jill Murray is a Montreal-based writer, game developer, maker of stuff, grower of things, amateur coffee roaster, and sloppy athlete. Her YA novels about breakdancing teenagers, Break on Through and Rhythm and Blues were published by Random House of Canada in 2008 and 2010. Soon after, she noticed that videogames have a lot of writing in them, and began doing that. She has worked on over 25 games including Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag (the one with the pirates). In 2013, she won a Writers’ Guild of America Award for Excellence in Videogame Writing, as co-lead writer for Assassin’s Creed: Liberation. Since 2015, she has provided narrative expertise to all kinds of games through her studio, Discoglobe Interactive. This summer, she embarks on an MFA in Creative Non-Fiction, with the Univeristy of King’s College, to write a hybrid memoir and biography about her efforts to learn to weave, in the footsteps of her grandmother, Bessie Murray, creator of the Nova Scotia Tartan.
You can find Jill’s games work at www.discoglobe.ca, and her sporadic commentary about disorganized subjects at jillmurray.bsky.social.