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Valentine

February 19, 2025 /

Valentine is a published cosplayer, panelist, Twitch streamer, and content creator. She mainly focuses on cosplaying from anime and video games. Utilizing her extensive theater background, she has spent her cosplay career applying tactics and methods she learned to her cosplays as shown through her wig styling, garment making, and her personal favorite, her makeup. She has paneled at multiple conventions up and down the East Coast, her favorite being Galaxycon Raleigh this past summer, where she spoke about using fashion and cosplay as a storytelling device in different animes. Valentine strives to spread love and positivity in the cosplay community, especially lifting up her fellow chronically ill cosplayers.

Jack Valentine

February 19, 2025 /

Jack is the Vice-Chair of the Modern Enigma Society Board of Directors. He has more than thirty years of gaming and LARP experience. Having been a storyteller since he was a little kid, about fourteen years ago he began putting his work on paper. In addition to working as a freelance editor, he returned to his childhood dream of being a writer, and has now written more than fifty short novels, many of them spicy romances, under his pen names, available on Amazon.

Lena Volkova

February 19, 2025 /

Lena Volkova is an award-winning costume designer, model, and actor from the DMV. Lena mostly spends her time as a costume arts educator and designer in the theatrical world. Most recently, her credits include Urinetown (Workhouse Arts Center), Julius Caesar (Avant Bard), and Every Brilliant Thing (Workhouse Arts Center). In addition to her work as a costume designer, she is also a scare actor and creative designer for the annual Workhouse Arts Haunted Trail. Lena also serves on the board of directors for DC Cosplay Photo Shoots, a photography and costume arts education nonprofit that serves the Greater Washington Metropolitan Area.

Lena has been a staple in the DMV’s cosplay community since 2016. She became a media personality in the costume arts world in 2018 with the launch of her podcast, The Cosplay Cast. Previously, she was well-known within the South Texas cosplay and horror communities where she served as a celebrity judge for the Facial Hair League and community-driven philanthropic events.

These days, Lena primarily focuses on arts education and is dedicated to empowering the cosplay community with educational opportunities, resources, and information. Lena’s primary goal is not only to help make costuming a mainstream hobby but also to educate people on the merits of costume-based work and to accept costuming as a valid art form. In 2023, she curated an Art Exhibition at the Workhouse Arts Center, featuring selected works from DC Cosplay Photo Shoots’ members. The week-long gallery installation was the first of its kind and was the highlight of February 2023’s Second Saturday Art Walk. In 2024, she curated “Tulpa” featuring more works from DC Cosplay Photo Shoots members and was also a featured artist. Lena and her mission and experiences as a costumer have previously been featured in CanvasRebel, Voyage Baltimore, and Metro Weekly magazines.

Tempie W. Wade

February 18, 2025 /

Tempie W. Wade is the award-winning author of the Timely Revolution book series. She writes a wide range of genres including historical fiction and fantasy. Her debut novel, A Timely Revolution, was awarded “Best Historical Fantasy” in the 2019 American Book Fest American Fiction Awards.

The author is a lifelong resident of Virginia and currently resides in Williamsburg. Her interests include traveling, visiting museums, and exploring historical sites and ruins.

Weavers Circle

February 17, 2025 /

Weavers Circle imagines a world where everyone feels meaningfully connected. We strive towards this world by gathering around curious, compassionate, and courageous stories. At RavenCon we’re excited to explore how stories impact our lives. Terreal, our visionary founder and blerd, is eager to discuss the emerging subgenre of Solarpunk or GMing tabletop role-playing games. While Courtney, macro social worker and book club host, is wondering how others define visionary fiction or if anyone else reads Stuart Turton. Let’s “Play with Stories” together!

Joan Wendland

February 14, 2025 /

Joan Wendland is a Renaissance woman. Engineer, game designer, author, juggler, and sometimes stand-up comic. She can do almost anything but sew or draw. She lives in both northern Virginia and Ottawa, Canada, but is still a Jersey girl at heart.

Joan’s fine card games can be found at blood-and-cardstock.com.

Her writing blog is located at zoo-illuminati.com.

Her Twitter and BSky handles are @BandCGames.

Christopher Weuve

February 14, 2025 /

Christopher Weuve is a naval analyst and wargame designer. He spent six years at the Center for Naval Analyses (did you know the Combat Information Center of a Burke-class destroyer would make an excellent starship bridge?), and then five years on the faculty of the US Naval War College, of which he is a graduate. After a decade as an intelligence analyst, he’s now back to designing wargames, and is the co-founder of the Connections Online wargame conference, held every April.

Outside the day job, Chris is a co-founder of BuNine (David Weber’s Honorverse analytic visualization team), and has also consulted with Chuck Gannon, Walter Hunt, Alec Peters, Tom Harlan, John Lumpkin, and others. His work has been featured by Baen Books, the US Naval War College Review, Foreign Policy, and the Discovery Channel. Since May 2020 he’s been the co-host (with Pat Doyle) of Starfleet Tactical on the Ares Studio channel on YouTube.

Chris is (to the best of his knowledge) the only person ever interviewed (twice!) by the journal Foreign Policy about science fiction warships. His hobbies are naval history, science fiction, and not speaking for his employer.

Martin Wilsey

February 14, 2025 /

Martin Wilsey is a full-time author and creator of the bestselling, Solstice 31 Saga.

Mr. Wilsey’s first novel, Still Falling, was published March 31st of 2015. Less than three years and over a half-a-million published words later, he retired from his career as a research scientist for a government-funded think tank. As a full-time science fiction writer, Mr. Wilsey still uses his research and whiteboard skills to keep the books flowing. He likes to put the science back into science fiction.

Mr. Wilsey is also the founder and CEO of Tannhäuser Press, a small press and collaborative environment that was explicitly created by writers for writers.

As a prolific blogger, Martin shares what he has learned on his journey as an indie published author. On his blog, he writes a weekly webcomic and shares his inspirations and views on life. In addition to writing, he has begun to expand efforts into publishing through Tannhäuser Press, audio narration, and podcasting.

Mr. Wilsey has more projects than he has time. Please feel free to email him and distract him even more.

He and his wife Brenda live in Virginia with their cats Brandy and Bailey, and his dog Whiskey.

Email him or follow him on Social Media!

He just might kill you in his next novel…

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