K. A. LAITY

According to the bio on her website: "K. A. Laity writes in a variety of genres. She's author of [many books] and many more stories, essays, plays and humour pieces as well as editor of WEIRD NOIR, NOIR CARNIVAL and DRAG NOIR for Fox Spirit Books. She writes historicals as KIT MARLOWE and crime as GRAHAM WYND. Laity received a 2006 Finlandia Foundation grant and the 2005 Eureka Short Story Fellowship to work on a collection of short stories based on Finnish mythology and the Kalevala. In 2011-2 she was a Fulbright Fellow at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Dr. Laity is Associate Professor of English at the College of Saint Rose, where she teaches medieval literature, film, New Media and popular culture, with a particular interest in magic -- see her collection ROOK CHANT or read her History Witch column at Witches & Pagans. She divides her time between NY and Dundee, Scotland. Find her on Facebook, Twitter, and Goodreads or follow her blog."