Ali is a writer, a performer, and a creative producer of video and tabletop games. When she is not pretending to be an elf of some kind, she enjoys walking to the bookstore, walking home from the bookstore, and then later returning to the same bookstore. She studied Literary Arts and Modern Culture & Media at Brown University, and currently lives in Chicago with her spouse, their cat, and an ever-expanding collection of ceramic lighthouses.

She writes as Ali MacLeod and performs and produces as Ali Murray. If you see her in the streets, though, she prefers Your Eminence.