smiling white latine femme in front of a waterfall. their hair is shoulder-length with bangs, brown and pink.

cass wilkinson saldaña

hi! i'm a science fiction & fantasy writer, game designer, and data librarian living on narragansett land (providence, rhode island). i use they/them pronouns.here for queer+trans embodiment, non-human perspectives, environmental justice, and defiant play (!!!) you'll find bits of my work with data + learners poking through, too.you can find things to read, play, and listen to here. take time - poke around!

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Selected projects

A burning match is a PORTAL. Where does it take you? That's for you and the match to say. (COMMUNICATE TELEPATHICALLY.) When the flame snuffs out, you're on the OTHER SIDE.

<READ/LISTEN ONLINE> melting point (apparition literary magazine, 2024)
<READ IN PRINT> this is your bike on plants (microcosm publishing, 2025)
<PLAY WITH MATCHES> your abuser is dead <3 (pigeon praxis press / itch.io, 2024)
<PLAY ONLINE> reparative (itch.io, 2015)

other tufts / scraps / love notes for pigeons:

<READ> "Meeting - and Losing - Trans Friends on the Internet (Buzzfeed LGBTQ, 2015)<READ BUT SCHOLARLY THIS TIME> "Mediating effect of self-acceptance between values and offline/online identity expressions among college students" (Computers in Human Behavior, 2015)<LISTEN> "Ghost Bikes" (PRX, 2008)<I AM ALSO A LIBRARIAN> here