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

All-Purpose Writer

K. A. Laity is the award-winning author of Pelzmantel: A Medieval Tale as well as a comic book, short stories, humor, plays and essays. Clive Barker has called her work "full of fluent style and poetic dialogue" and Matrifocus Magazine says "Laity's storytelling is magic in itself. The language is beautiful and weaves vivid pictures for the reader's imagination."

At present she is completing work on a new novel while anticipating the publication of Unikirja (Aino Press 2008), a collection of short stories and a play based on the Kalevala, Kanteletar, and other Finnish myths and legends, for which she won the 2005 Eureka Short Story Fellowship as well as a 2006 Finlandia Foundation grant.

Dr. Laity teaches medieval literature, film and popular culture at the College of Saint Rose.