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Sarah Lynne Bowman (Ph.D.) is a role-playing games scholar, designer, and organizer. She teaches as Adjunct Faculty adjunct faculty in English , Communication, and Communication Humanities for several institutions including The Austin Community College. She received her B.S. from the University of Texas at Austin in Radio-TV-Film in 1998 and her M.A. from the same department in 2003. Bowman graduated with her Ph.D. in Arts and Humanities from the University of Texas at Dallasin 2008. McFarland Press published her dissertation in 2010 as ''The Functions of Role-playing Games: How Participants Create Community, Solve Problems, and Explore Identity''. She edited The Book of Mad About the Boy (2012 US run) and Bowman has presented a Nordic Larp talk on Bleed. Together with Aaron Vanek, Bowman co-edits served as an editor for ''The Wyrd Con Companion Book, '' since 2012 and is a collection Coordinating Editor for the ''International Journal of essays on larp and related phenomena. Along with her work on social conflict and bleed effects, her current research interests include applying Jungian theory to roleRole-playing studies''. She was the lead organizer for the Living Games Conference 2016, studying the benefits of edu-larpserved on several committees for Living Games 2018, and comparing helped coordinate the enactment of roleRole-playing characters with other creative phenomena such as drag performanceand Simulation in Education Conference in 2016 and 2018.