K. A. Laity

K. A. Laity is an award-winning author, scholar, filmmaker, critic, editor, and arcane artist. She has appeared on BBC radio and NPR talking about magic, witchcraft and surrealism. She has decades of experience reading tarot. Her creative workshops are offered through Visionary Fuel.

Dr Laity’s current research includes medieval Scots, crime fiction & films, medievalism and the writings of Leonora Carrington.

Her fiction includes Chastity Flame, The Mangrove Legacy, Lush Situation, Love is a Grift, Satan’s Sorority, How to Be Dull, White Rabbit, Dream Book, A Cut-Throat Business, Owl Stretching, and Pelzmantel. She has edited My Wandering Uterus, Respectable Horror, Weird Noir, Noir Carnival and Drag Noir, plus written many short stories, scholarly essays, songs, and plays. Her 2011-2 Fulbright Fellowship at the National University of Ireland, Galway, focused on Digital Humanities.

She writes crime as Graham Wynd and historical fiction as Kit Marlowe.

For her music & performance check out Higora, Aural Lint, Low Vibrational Frequency, and Victoria Squid.