Kate Heartfield

Kate Heartfield Kate Heartfield is the author of The Valkyrie (2023), a retelling of Norse and Germanic myths, and The Embroidered Book, a Sunday Times bestselling historical fantasy novel. Her debut novel Armed in Her Fashion (2018) won Canada’s Aurora Award, and is being rereleased in a new edtion as The Chatelaine in 2023. She also writes interactive fiction, including The Road to Canterbury, and The Magician's Workshop, published by Choice of Games. Her short stories and novellas have been shortlisted for the Nebula, Locus, Aurora, Sunburst and Crawford awards, and her journalism for a National Newspaper Award. Her short stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Lackington's, Podcastle and elsewhere. A former newspaper journalist, Kate lives near Ottawa, Canada.