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'''Lizzie Stark''' is an American journalist and author of the book ''[[Leaving Mundania|Leaving Mundania: Inside the Transformative World of Live Action Role-playing Games]]'' (2012, Chicago Review Press), which explains larp to a mainstream audience from a variety of angles. Although ''Leaving Mundania'' focuses primarily on larp in the US, the last two chapters deal with the author's trip to [[Knudepunkt 2011]].<br />
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In 2012 her presentation "Playing in Graveyards: When terror collides with larp" was part of the [[Nordic Larp Talks]].<br />
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In 2013 she co-edited [[Larps from the Factory]], a collection of Norwegian larp scripts with [[Elin Nilsen]] and [[Trine Lise Lindahl]]. In 2013 she co-edited #[[Feminism: A Nano-Game Anthology]].<br />
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==Designer and Organizer==<br />
Stark's games include the freeform game [[The Curse]], about decision making and hereditary breast cancer; [[In Residency]], about life in an artists' colony; [[This Miracle]] (with Nick Fortugno), about the origins of religion; and "Manic Pixie Dream Girl Commandos," a contribution to #Feminism.<br />
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Along with many house cons, and the short lived Highland Park Players, in New Jersey, Stark served as the lead organizer of the US re-run of [[Mad About the Boy]] in Orange, Connecticut in 2012, and as a program lead for Living Games Austin 2016. <br />
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==Honors==<br />
* Guest of Honor, Fastaval, 2012<br />
* Industry Insider Guest of Honor, Gencon, 2013.<br />
* Guest of Honor, Living Games NYC 2014<br />
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== Articles on Larp ==<br />
* ''We hold these rules to be self evident'' - article in [[States of Play: Nordic Larp Around the World]] in the [[Solmukohta 2012]] [[Knutepunkt-books]], an essay on American larp as emblematic of American national values.<br />
* "Trampled by the Herd" in Crossing Habitual Borders for Knutepunkt 2013 <br />
* "Mad About the Techniques" in The Wyrd Con Companion Book, 2013 <br />
* Pocket Guide to American Freeform, a monograph, 2014 <br />
* "Writing a Larpscript" with Trine Lise Lindahl and Elin Nilsen, The Cutting Edge of Nordic Larpfor Knutpunkt 2014.<br />
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==External links==<br />
* "#Feminism", [http://feministnanogames.wordpress.com] a collection of 34 nano games] written by feminists around the world, along with Anna Westerling and Misha Bushyager.<br />
* "The Curse", [http://leavingmundania.com/2013/05/28/the-curse-a-freeform-game-about-brca/]<br />
* "In Residency", [http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product_reviews.php?products_id=133724]<br />
* "This Miracle", [http://leavingmundania.com/2015/04/06/this-miracle/]<br />
* "Pocket Guide to American Freeform" [http://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Guide-American-Freeform-Lizzie-ebook/dp/B00JF4Z3B8]<br />
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