Aubrey Haskett

Writer.
Software engineer.

A personal site, a small archive of work, and a way to be found.

Aubrey Haskett, sitting on a stone wall above an alpine lake

About

I'm a writer and software engineer. I studied Information Systems and Accounting at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with a minor in Engineering, and have spent the last several years building video infrastructure at Gamechanger and writing fiction in the hours around it.

I've spent stretches of life on the road, lived for a while in a van I helped build, and kept coming back to the same handful of preoccupations: writing, developing useful software, and making art.

Work

Writing

Manuscript Reader

A small tool for writers

Hear your writing read aloud in a natural voice. Free, private, no signup. I built it because I can only catch certain kinds of mistakes when the words are spoken back to me.

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The Crimson Knight

Adult dark fantasy · 95,000 words · Sapphic Arthurian retelling

After Camelot falls, the woman history will call Morgana escapes in a dead boy's clothes carrying a scale that enslaves a dragon in human form. She needs the dragon-knight to renew five ancient seals before a titan wakes beneath Britain — but she refuses to use the binding, and that refusal becomes the foundation for a love story, a political revolution, and a new kind of power. A queer feminist Arthurian retelling where the real quest is whether you can inherit a leash and choose to let go. Currently preparing for query.

Travel

Full-Time RV Life

2022 – 2025

After the van, my husband and I upgraded to an RV — which we also remodeled — and spent several years working remotely and moving through the country. We'd land somewhere new every few weeks: high desert, Gulf coast, Appalachian foothills, the rural Midwest. It gave us a ground-level view of what the American hinterlands actually look like, the people who live there, and how differently life can be organized.

We made short videos along the way — not to grow an audience, but to share with family and friends. I'm including them here because learning to shoot and edit on real camera gear became a creative project in its own right.

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Building a Tiny Home on Wheels

2020 – 2022

I learned plumbing, electricity, carpentry, and mechanics to build my own off-grid van — a project that felt like going back to school, except the homework was figuring out how to run 12-volt systems and frame a sleeping platform.

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