K. A. Laity

K.A. Laity, Ph.D. is a Finnish-American medievalist and award-winning^[1] author, noted for the novel Pelzmantel, as well as numerous short stories, plays, popular journalism and scholarly essays.

Contents 1 Career overview 2 Bibliography 2.1 Fiction 2.2 Essays 2.3 Notes 2.4 Translations 2.5 Reviews 2.6 Zines 2.7 Plays 3 References 4 External links

Career overview

Laity's father's family emigrated from Finland and, consequently, a substantial portion of her writing is concerned with Finnish culture. A native of Lansing, Michigan, Laity is worked on Unikirja in 2007, a collection of short stories based on the Kalevala, Kanteletar, and other Finnish myths and legends. She is also a full-time professor of English literature, creative writing and film at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York.^[2]

Bibliography

Fiction

• Pelzmantel. Novel. Spilled Candy Books, February 1, 2003. ISBN 978-1892718464
  • Nominated for Aesop Prize of the Children's Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society and for the International Reading Association Children's Book Award.
• "On Buffalo Bayou". Short story. New Texas Review (2005): 92–108.
• "Vipunen". Short story. New World Finn 5.3 (July-September 2005): 22–24.
• "Sun Thief". Short story. Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress XXI. New York: DAW Books, 2004. 133–142.
• "Kerttu". Short story. New World Finn 4.2 (April-June 2004): 7–9.
• "When Little Joe the Krampus Met". Chapbook with The Joey Zone. December 2003.
• "Sacrifice". Short story. New World Finn 3.2 (April-June 2002): 22–23.
• "Touched by an Angel". Short story. Delirium (forthcoming 2003).
• "Wordgeryne" Short story. Lovecraft's Weird Mysteries 5 (June 2002): 42–46.
• "Willimantic Frogs". Chapbook. May 2001.
• "Sinikka Journeys North". The Beltane Papers 25 (2001): 14–19.
• "Walpurgisnacht". The Seeker Journal 13.5 (2001): 6–9.
• "Three Penny Dreadfuls". Chapbook. June 1998.
• "A Gift House". Masters of Terror's House of Horror (April 1998).
• "The Eleventh Commandment". Rictus 9 (April 1997).
• "Revelation". The Official Clive Barker Page, www.clivebarker.com . Winner, MGM/United Artists/Clive Barker's Lord of Illusions Short Story Contest, November 1995.

Essays

• "Translating Saint as (Vi)king: St. Olaf in the Heimskringla". Viator 35 (2004): 169–202.
• "Living the Mystery: Sacred Drama Today". Journal for the Academic Study of Magic.
• "Illusory Adversaries?: Images of Female Power in Sandman: The Kindly Ones". The Sandman Papers. Ed. Joe Sanders. Seattle: Fantagraphics, in press.
• "Clive Barker" and "Books of Blood". Supernatural Literature of the World: An Encyclopedia. Eds. S. T. Joshi and Stefan Dziemianowicz. Greenwood Press, in press.
• "Clive Barker" and "Ramsey Campbell" Supernatural Fiction Writers. 2nd edition. Ed. Richard Bleiler. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Scribners, 2003. 61–70, 177–188.
• "Constructing a Female Hero: Iconography in Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adle Blanc-Sec". International Journal of Comic Art 4.1: 163–169. Reprinted in Quadrado.
• "False Positives: The Katherine-Group Saints as Ambiguous Role Models". Magistra 7.2: 64–99.
• "A High Steppin' Filly: Effluent Juissance in Dame Darcy's Meatcake". Indy: Spring 1998. (25 ms pp)
  • Reprinted as "Dame Darcy e os poderes da BD" in Quadrado 3:3 (2001): 46–52.

Notes

• "Coming Together from Many Nations: The Conference on Women and the Divine". Beltane Papers 36 (Autumn 2005): 41–42.
• "Casting the Circle: Ritual and the Body of the Goddess". Circle 94 (Summer 2005): 19–20.
• "Ancient Texts and Venerable Tales" Celebrating the Pagan Soul. Ed. Laura Wildman. Citadel Press, 2005.
• "Hunter S. Thompson: RIP". UHD Dateline March 4–24, 2005.
• "The New Medievalism: Visual Rhetoric and Christianity in Modern Films". The Beltane Papers 33 (2004): 48–49, 64.
• "The Sound of Magic: The Kantele." The Beltane Papers 31 (2003): 30–31, 62.
• "Holy Maidenhead! Or How Our Medieval Foremothers Were Sold Virginity". The Beltane Papers 27 (2002): 39, 61.
• "Taking the Goddess to Class". The Seeker Journal 14.3 (2002): 3–4.
• "Awaiting on You All: George Harrison 1943–2001". The Seeker Journal 14.1 (2002): 9–11.
• "Anglo-Saxon Yule". The Seeker Journal 13.12 (2001): 4–5.
• "Walking Among the Elders". Circle 82 (2001): 6–7.
• "An Early Witch Trial". The Seeker Journal 13.11 (2001): 7–8.
• "A Most Unusual Totem Animal". Circle 81 (2001): 21.
• "Music is Praise". The Seeker Journal 13.8 (2001): 3–4.
• "Teaching Medea". The Beltane Papers 25 (2001): 10–11.
• "Goddess, Waiting". The Seeker Journal 12.12 (2000): 5–6.
• "Edward Gorey 1925–2000". Obituary. TheComicStore.com April 2000.

Translations

• "Against the Water Elf Disease". Translation. The Bayou Review (2003): 35.
• "Anglo-Saxon Charm Against a Wen". Dual-text translation. The Seeker Journal 13.5 (2001): 12–13.
• "Against a Swarm of Bees: An Anglo-Saxon Charm". Dual-text translation. The Seeker Journal 13.3 (2001): 11.
• "Erce: Earth Goddess: An Anglo-Saxon Charm". Dual-text Translation. Avalon Rising 1.3 (1999): 14–15. Reprinted as "Erce: Earth Goddess". The Seeker Journal 13.2 (2001): 18–19. Reprinted in The Pagan's Muse.

Reviews

• Troll: A Love Story by Johanna Sinisalo. Book review. New World Finn 5.3 (July-September 2004): 26.
• Popular Music from Vittula by Mikael Niemi. Book review. New World Finn 5.2 (April-June 2004): 26.
• "Japanese Magic: The Girl-Friendly Films of Hayao Miyazaki". With Wendy Goldberg. Film review. Femspec 5.1 (2005).
• Coldheart Canyon by Clive Barker. Book Review. The Beltane Papers 27 (2002): 54–55.
• "Celebrating Pale Hecate's Offerings: My Favorite Witchcraft Films". Film reviews. The Beltane Papers 27 (2002): 52–53.
• "Magic as Performance Art: The Ritual Art of Alan Moore". The Seeker Journal 14.4 (2002): 8–9.
• The Book of Zines: Readings from the Fringe by Chip Rowe. Book review. Other Voices 1.2 (1998).
• Dark City. Film review. Millennium (March 1998).
• "Alien Four: Foot Fetish". Film review. Millennium (December 1997).
• "Two Movies Clive Barker Hopes You'll Never See". Film review. Weird Times 1.4 (1996): 6–8.

Zines

• Wombat's World (1996–2000, published irregularly, now a blog)

Plays

• Fiasco. Staged reading, October 2005, University of Houston–Downtown.
• Con-Eire. Debuted at Trinoc-con, July 2006, Durham, North Carolina.

References

External links

• K. A. Laity Homepage
• Review of Laity's novel
• K. A. Laity at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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