Dr. Mary Crowell is a performer, jazz musician, music teacher, and gamer. She's won three Pegasus Awards: Best Performer in 2007; Best Composer in 2012, and Best Gaming Song also in 2012 for her song "I Put My Low Stat.". ("I Put My Low Stat" also won ENWorld's Battle of the Bards in 2012.) Crowell has released two solo albums: Courting My Muse (2007) and Acolytes of the Machine (2012) and two band albums: Play It With Moxie Live (2012) with Play It With Moxie and Third Thyme's the Charm (2012) with Three Weird Sisters. She's played keyboard on several other albums including Seanan McGuire's Hugo-nominated Wicked Girls (2010).