About

Writer | Artist

Alora Lynn Lafontaine (they/them) is a genre writer for games, animated and live action series, prose, and comics. They specialize in complex character driven stories with high stakes, natural wit, and vulnerability.

They’re a member of the Writers Guild of Canada and winner of the 2022 YMA John Rooney Scriptwriters Fund. Their prose has been published in The Crow’s Quill literary magazine.

Prior to writing full-time, Alora worked for over 6 years as an Assistant Art Director/Illustrator as a Directors Guild of Canada member. In 2015, they graduated on full scholarship with a BFA from Adelphi University’s Academic Honors College in the little-known city of New York.

Alora has called many cities home: Toronto, Los Angeles, New York, Montreal, and Vancouver. In their free time, Alora GMs, practices Wu Xing Kung Fu, and learns just a little bit of too many languages at once.