Kate Cayley

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Kate Cayley is a poet, playwright and fiction writer who has published three collections of poetry and two short story collections. Her plays have been performed in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. She has won the Trillium Book Award, an O. Henry Prize, and the Mitchell Prize for Poetry, and been a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, among other awards. She was a playwright in residence with Tarragon Theatre for nine years and has an ongoing writing collaboration with immersive company Zuppa Theatre. Her writing has appeared in Best Canadian Poetry, Best Canadian Stories, Brick, Electric Literature, Joyland, and The New Quarterly. She has been writer in residence at McMaster University, Sheridan College and the Toronto Public Library, and mentored emerging writers through the University of Toronto, the University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA, Diaspora Dialogues, and Sisters Writes. Her first novel, Property, is forthcoming from Coach House Books.