Irving Benitez (he/him) AKA Jellyfishlines, is a queer, trans masculine, multi-disabled, and Mad TTRPG designer, Actual Play Game Master, podcast host and co-host, performer, and poetry writer from the Appalachian region of NE Ohio.
Some of his best known TTRPG work includes A Witch, A Gallows Bird, a Wretched & Alone Game and Rumor Mill: A System Agnostic TTRPG Mechanic and Tool. Haunt//Haunting//Haunted – Irving's 36 word game about place, memory, and grief – was the first game he published in 2025.
His current Games In Progress include Saltwater & After..., a Descended from the Queen game about living life to the fullest, loss, grief, and how we bear the weight of memory and A Farewell to Light, a Carta game where the player enters an eldritch, ever-shifting cave in order to find their loved one trapped in the earthen tunnels.
You can contact Irving for work by emailing him at [jellyfishlines2000@gmail.com].
As for his poetry, Irving has been published in Ghost City Review, The Bitchin' K, Voidspace Zine, and has forthcoming work in Wishbone Words.
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