Nicole Anstedt is a scholar, author, and mythologist who uses the vampyric lens to dissect the complex interplay between the supernatural and human culture. Her research explores how human narratives distort, commodify, and marginalize the Kindred, appropriating the supernatural as metaphors and reshaping vampyric existence into tools for human reflection. These pervasive symbols and representations strip the Kindred of their sovereignty, reducing them to archetypes that reinforce human-centered narratives of power and identity.

Much of human scholarly work on vampires reduces the Kindred to vessels for human reflection, projecting human ways of experiencing life, love, loss, and discrimination onto stories that were never theirs. Vampyric existence is not a distorted mirror of the human condition—it stands apart, shaped by its own truths, emotions, and struggles. While universal themes echo through Kindred narratives, humans continue to interpret them through their own lens, erasing the depth and reality of a sovereign existence.

As an author, mythologist, photographer, and poet, Nicole is pioneering a new era of the Vampyre.