Kate Cayley is a writer from Toronto. Her collection of short fiction, How You Were Born, won the Trillium Book Award, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, and was long-listed for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. She has published two collections of poetry, When This World Comes to an End, and Other Houses, and a young adult novel, The Hangman in the Mirror. She was a playwright-in-residence at Tarragon Theatre from 2009-2017, and wrote two plays for Tarragon, After Akhmatova and The Bakelite Masterpiece, which went on to multiple American productions.