Angel Leigh McCoy (born December 13, 1962) is an American game designer and fiction writer based in Seattle, Washington.

Early life and education

Originally from the Midwest, Angel Leigh McCoy grew up delving into fantasy and horror novels and won her first essay contest in sixth grade. She studied French Literature at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.

Career

She is credited with published work in the role-playing games industry as far back as 1994. Over the years, she has designed RPG material for companies such as White Wolf, Wizards of the Coast, FASA, and Pinnacle Entertainment Group. In 2001, she was writing in the video game industry for Microsoft Game Studios, writing articles as Xbox.com correspondent Wireless Angel. She transferred to ArenaNet in 2007, where she was part of a team effort to make the MMORPG Guild Wars 2. Her side projects have included: founding and providing creative direction for an indie game team (Games Omniverse LLC); short fiction writing; webmaster for the Horror Writers Association; producing the Wily Writers Speculative Fiction Podcast; and editing short story anthologies "Deep Cuts", and "Another Dimension Anthology".

Publications

Novella

Short fiction

McCoy has published short fiction in various anthologies and magazines, including:

Computer game work

McCoy worked as a game reviewer and journalist for Microsoft Game Studios and Xbox. She currently works for ArenaNet as lore and narrative designer on Guild Wars 2.

Role-playing game work

McCoy's work in the role-playing game industry includes supplements for Wizards of the Coast's Forgotten Realms; FASA's Earthdawn; West End Games' World of Necroscope; Pinnacle Entertainment's Deadlands; and White Wolf's Mage: The Ascension, Vampire: The Masquerade, Hunter: The Reckoning and Changeling: The Dreaming. Dungeons & Dragons product line, TSR Changeling: The Dreaming product line, White Wolf Publishing & ArtHaus Publishing Mage: The Ascension product line, White Wolf Publishing Vampire: The Masquerade product line, White Wolf Publishing EverQuest Role-Playing Game product line, White Wolf Publishing Hunter: The Reckoning product line, White Wolf Publishing Millennium's End product line, Chameleon Eclectic Earthdawn product line, FASA Corporation Miscellaneous