The legend

Born from the dark, cold seas of the Vineyard Sound, Chelsea is an eldritch creature known for writing cozy academia, drawing dog-dragons, and petting cats.

Cozy academia with a gothic twist

As a child, Chelsea was obsessed with the paranormal and the occult.

As an adult, Chelsea enjoys cozy worlds with show-stopping magic.

Magical school stories is where these two things meet.

The brand:

Dragonlight Designs

Dragonlight Designs was created in 2021, to meet a demand in the market for fantastic stationery.

Showcasing forest creatures of New England and fantastic creatures of the imagination, Dragonlight Designs offers greeting cards, vinyl stickers, enamel pins, and eldritch curiosities for the whimsical mind.

In 2025, Chelsea’s work was part of the November group show at the Northampton Center for the Arts.

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Chelsea composes music for piano. Sometimes you can catch her playing in public.

Can you stream it? No. Chelsea doesn’t believe in streaming.

But she really needs to record demos so she can like, have a bandcamp or something.

How do you tell a story?

Chelsea Counsell has an MFA in Creative Writing for Children from Simmons University. She is also a graduate of Viable Paradise (2015), the Chilmark Writing Workshop (2016), and Futurescapes (2018).

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Her favorite authors are Martha Wells, Maggie Stiefvater, Roshani Chokshi, Jill Murphy, Nnedi Okorafor, and Masashi Kishimoto.

Feminist, queer, crazy cat lady, gamer, who thinks the minimum wage needs to be about $30, and plastic is the devil

Born on Martha’s Vineyard, Chelsea has a deep love for the natural world, but also spends most of her time staring at a screen.

She owns two cats: A piebald girl afraid of her own shadow, and a too-smart tabby whose ear-tips were lost as a stray in Fargo.

She has a book hoarding problem.