"Once you label me, you negate me." -- Søren Kierkegaard

All-Purpose Writer

"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 (Immanion Press 2010) [see the trailer!] as well as Unikirja (Aino Press 2009), 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 comic Jane Quiet. Her bibliography is chock full of short stories, humor pieces, plays and essays, both scholarly and popular.

"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 writes a weekly column for the global women's lifestyle network, BitchBuzz, and teaches medieval literature, film, gender studies, New Media and popular culture at the College of Saint Rose. Send her an email.

Kathryn Laity

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