Game design Baker's most prominent work is
Apocalypse World (2010). Apocalypse World is a post-apocalyptic game co-designed with her husband,
Vincent Baker, published through
Lumpley Games.
Apocalypse World won multiple awards such as the 2010
Indie RPG Award for "Game of the Year" Baker is the founding owner of
Night Sky Games.
A Thousand and One Nights (2006), published through Night Sky Games, is a role-playing game based on the collection of Arabic stories
The Book of One Thousand and One Nights. According to games scholar Evan Torner,
A Thousand and One Nights includes systems for telling stories within stories, establishing and developing jealousies between characters, and reflecting upon
metatextuality. Baker has also designed other
indie role-playing games such as ''Miss Schiffer's School for Young Ladies of Quality
(2006), Psi*Run
(2012) and Valiant Girls'' (2013); the latter were Night Sky Games' third and sixth publications respectively. Baker and
Emily Care Boss wrote
Fair Game, a blog-style design and
roleplaying theory journal, from 2005 to 2011.
Textiles and quilting Baker is a quilter and quilt historian, particularly interested in how the history of non-dominant voices gets transmitted in objects and oral tradition rather than the official written history. Baker is a Collections Assistant for the
Hatfield Historical Museum and is part of the curatorial team for the Historical Society of
Greenfield. ==Personal life==