Joan Moriarity

Gamesmistress

Joan Moriarity has dedicated her life to rehabilitating playfulness as something that is not only pleasurable and healthy, but virtuous and necessary.

For ten years, she has been recommending and teaching tabletop games to guests at Toronto's Snakes & Lattes Board Game Café. She has worked in the tabletop game industry as a designer, developer, art director, publisher, rules writer, retailer, and instructor. Her writing has appeared in The Walrus magazine, The Toronto Star and The Washington Post, and she is co-author of "Your Move: What Board Games Teach Us About Life". She has lectured at the University of Toronto on the magic of games and the power of play.

Together with her fiancée, she is now creating YouTube videos where she shares all the secrets she has gathered over decades of studying games and the people who play them.