Kate Cayley is a fiction writer, poet, and playwright. She has published two short story collections, three collections of poetry, and a novel, Property, which won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction and the Toronto Book Award, and was a finalist for the Amazon First Novel Award and the Indies Prize. She has also received the Trillium Book Award, the Mitchell Prize for Poetry, and an O. Henry Prize, and her plays have been performed in Canada, the US, and the UK. She was a playwright in residence with Tarragon Theatre, and wrote two plays for Tarragon, After Akhmatova and The Bakelite Masterpiece. She is a frequent writing collaborator with immersive company Zuppa Theatre, most recently on The Archive of Missing Things, This Is Nowhere, and HereNowThis, and her writing has appeared in Best Canadian Poetry, Best Canadian Stories, Brick, Electric Literature, Joyland, The New Quarterly and North American Review.