All-Purpose Writer
“Once you label me, you negate me.” — Søren Kierkegaard
“Laity is a very remarkable sorceress indeed.”
Elizabeth Hand
K. A. Laity is the award-winning author of Pelzmantel and Other Medieval Tales of Magic and the forthcoming Owl Stretching, as well as Unikirja, a collection of short stories and a play based on the Kalevala, Kanteletar, and other Finnish myths and legend, for which she won the 2005 Eureka Short Story Fellowship as well as a 2006 Finlandia Foundation grant. With cartoonist Elena Steier she created the occult detective comic Jane Quiet. Her bibliography is chock full of short stories, humor pieces, plays and essays, both scholarly and popular. She currently resides in Galway, Ireland where she’s a Fulbright Fellow in digital humanities at NUIG (writers, take my survey).
“Full of fluent style and poetic dialogue.”
Clive Barker“Laity’s storytelling is magic in itself. The language is beautiful and weaves vivid pictures for the reader’s imagination.”
Matrifocus Magazine on Pelzmantel“You will want to savor every word, every page and read this book over and over.”
The Pagan and the Pen on Unikirja
Dr. Laity has written on popular culture and social media for The Spectator and BitchBuzz, and teaches medieval literature, film, gender studies, New Media and popular culture at the College of Saint Rose. Contact her by sending a missive to “katelaity” at gmail[punctus]com.
