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'''Simon Brind''' is a writer, game designer, and PhD student. He is researching ‘Combat Narratology: Strategies for the resolution of narrative crisis in participatory fiction’ at the Digital Cultures Research Centre, (UWE), Bristol; primarily he is interested in the tension between the larp writer’s writer's vision and what the players make of it. He has been a larper since 1985 and a larpwright since 1986. He is a founding member of Avalon Larp Studio.
Editor of [[Once Upon a Nordic Larp... Twenty Years of Playing Stories]] (2017) together with [[Martine Svanevik]], [[Linn Carin Andreassen]], [[Elin Nilsen]], and [[Grethe Sofie Bulterud Strand]].