David Gürçay-Morris

Collaborates with authors and creative teams on written content for fiction, games, and digital media, refining it into clear, coherent, high-quality content. Edited chapters of the urban fantasy novel October Girl and romantic comedy novella The Tea Wars, preparing them for publication on Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). Partnered with a team of editors to copyedit, proofread, and QA The Maze Gallery, a collectively made interactive fiction game by 25 writers, maintaining individual authorial voices while unifying overall style and tone. Delivered in-depth line edits, copy edits, and an editorial style sheet, of How Prince Quisborne the Feckless Shook His Title, a text-based parser game that placed in the Top 10 at IFComp. Ongoing copyediting work on simplified rewrites of classic English-language novels (e.g. Anne of Green Gables) for ESL students in Japan.

Writes original speculative and interactive fiction, games, and digital media. Queries agents for representation for Suspicions of Ash and Discoveries of Thorn, while writing its sequel duology, Sestina and Tornada. Authored interactive fiction games published on itch.io across Ink, Twine, PICO-8, including Danainae psychopomp and Elvish for Goodbye (Top 40 Games, Interactive Fiction Competition 2022). Wrote the script and made a clickable prototype in Figma for Twin;souL, a new visual novel.

Led academic programs in design for the theater, mentoring students and advancing experimental approaches to storytelling through physical and digital media. Achieved tenure, was promoted to full Professor, and served as Department Chair, managing departmental operations, budgets, and strategic planning initiatives, while writing and editing operational documents for the department and college. Mentored students through hands-on design projects. Designed and delivered a course on 'Worldbuilding,' praised as a challenging and transformative academic experience.