Armina Salemi

Position
Contact
Credentials
BSc (IUST), MASc. (SFU)
Area of expertise
Speculative fiction, interactive digital storytelling, queer representation, censorship resistance, dystopian/utopian worldbuilding, AI-assisted narrative design.
Armina S. is a speculative fiction writer, recovering engineer, and longtime believer that stories can do what systems often can’t—tell the truth. With a master’s in Mechatronics from Simon Fraser University and a research background in AI and neural networks, Armina now spends less time debugging code and more time debugging narratives.
They are one of the first authors to publish queer representation in Persian-language fiction, challenging censorship through books like The Call of Colors, The Final Quartet, and The Traveller (Design Agency, #1)—all originally published in Iran. Now based in Canada, Armina is exploring how artificial intelligence can be used in interactive storytelling to build narrative systems that respond to readers’ choices and identities. Their MFA project lives at the crossroads of literature, technology, and resistance—with plenty of explosions, rebellions, and maybe a robot or two.