Ann Koi was raised by US Government employees (like wolves, only different) during the last decades of the Cold War. Her tribe migrated from one end to the other of the United States and back under an everpresent mushroom shadow. Her environment varied from pure suburban paranoia to festering rural depression. The 1980s, Ann is found to remark, were a magical time when nightmares were real, heroes didn't exist, and any children's character could be a child molester. In light of all this, fascinations with the writings of H.P. Lovecraft, ritual magick, and dark ambient music seem only natural.

Alternating between rock and roll bar jobs, stabs at university education at assorted schools, and teaching herself to paint, Ms. Koi continued her migratory lifestyle. By 2001, Ann had been to 46 of the 50 United states (with souvenir shotglasses to prove it) and 3 Canadian provinces, but had still not left the North American continent. With the help of a very generous friend and appreciator of the arts, Ann made it to Leipzig, Germany in 2003 for Wave Gotik Treffen (a music festival) and probably would have stayed if it wasn't for the mineral water. She'll be back.

Also in the past few years, Ms. Koi found her way back to university, and acquired her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Cornish College in Seattle. She played a diabolic role in the short film "The Resurrectionist", and had artwork published in Wizards of the Coast's d20 Call of Cthulhu as well as the Unknown Armies 2nd Edition rulebook. It could be said, Ann Koi gets around!

When not painting, sculpting, working on the Catalyst Studios website, or hawking the wares of various game companies, Ann enjoys exploring beaches and aquariums, plundering used bookstores and rummage sales, solving word puzzles, climbing past the warning signs, and being a very bad clown. Aside from "lots of" H.P. Lovecraft, Ann's favorite books include "Dune" (Frank Herbert), "The Illuminatus Trilogy" (Wilson/Shea), and "Watership Down" (Richard Addams). She likes her coffee black, her music dark, her clothes fantastic, and video games classic. And I've heard she throws fabulous parties *wink*.