K. A. Laity is an award-winning author, scholar, filmmaker, critic, editor, and arcane artist. Current research includes medieval Scots, crime fiction/films, medievalism and the writings of Leonora Carrington. Her short experimental film Pomegranate debuted at the 2023 Albany Film Festival, and A Fire Ritual for the Heart was featured in the Silent Fire exhibition co-curated by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Nasty Women Connecticut. Her art has been appearing in galleries across the northeast. 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.