Jessie Peterson has a PhD in linguistics from the University of Colorado at Boulder and was a professor of linguistics at Stephen F. Austin State University for 13 years, where she created a conlanging course in which she taught students how to construct a language from the ground up. She is now a full-time professional conlanger and works with her husband, David Peterson. Her work appears in a number of TV shows and films, including Pixar’s Elemental, Legendary’s Dune: Part Two, Peacock’s Vampire Academy, Netflix’s Shadow and Bone, and Freeform’s Motherland: Fort Salem. With her husband she co-hosts the weekly live stream LangTime Studio on YouTube, where they create new languages from scratch and share the process.
