K. A. Laity is an award-winning author, scholar, filmmaker, critic, editor, and arcane artist. You may have heard her on BBC radio and NPR talking about magic, witchcraft, and surrealism. Her books and stories cover many genres. She has decades of experience reading tarot. Her creative workshops are offered through Visionary Fuel. Her podcasts include Surreal Noir, Is It Funny?, and Irreverent Tarot. She is chair of the Divination, Witchcraft & the Occult area of the Popular Culture Association. Her online courses are here.
Dr Laity’s current research includes the occult, crime fiction & films, medievalism, and the writings of Leonora Carrington. She was Associate Professor of English at the College of Saint Rose until its closure in 2024.
Her film Nephomancy (2024) was a finalist or short listed for a number of 2024/5 film festivals. Her short experimental film Pomegranate debuted at the 2023 Albany Film Festival, and A Fire Ritual for the Heart was featured in the 2021 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 including Arcane Alchemy, a joint exhibition with Stephanie Johnson at the end of 2024.
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.
Her work has been translated into Italian, Polish, Slovene, German, and Portuguese. Follow her on Bluesky, Instagram or Facebook. She writes crime as Graham Wynd and historical fiction as Kit Marlowe.
For her music & performance see the BandCamp pages for Higora, Aural Lint, Low Vibrational Frequency, and Victoria Squid.
[Anchor image: photo of ‘Grissel Jaffrey’s Stone’ in the Howff, Dundee ©K. A. Laity 2023]
