Her creative practice centers on video- and text-based new media storytelling. Zaylea’s recent work includes the locative media project Speak2MeInCode (an illicit romance revealed through the guise of a grammar book) and the interactive novel Closer Than Rust (interwoven fictional stories about navigating queer identities in the rural American South). In 2013, she attended the writing residency In(ter)ventions: Literary Practice at the Edge at the BANFF Center in Alberta, Canada. Her screenplays have been recognized by the Atlanta International Film Festival and the University Film and Video Association. Zaylea’s writing-intensive course in Dublin focuses on travel writing and storytelling, while also featuring segments on screenwriting and interactive writing for text-based games.