Maggie Hofmann is a veteran award-winning cosplayer with 8 years experience creating costumes for herself and others. She has also been a professional theatrical costume maker since 2009 and holds a BA in drama from UC-Irvine and an MFA in costume design from UW-Madison. Her work has been published in several cosplay and theatrical magazines and has been featured on websites such as CosplayCentral and marvel.com. Maggie enjoys teaching others about sewing costumes and produces sewing and cosplay instructional content on YouTube as Paisleyandglue.