Kate Story is a writer and performer. A Newfoundlander living in Ontario, her first novel Blasted (Killick Press) received the Sunburst Award's honourable mention for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. She received the 2015 Ontario Arts Foundation's K.M. Hunter Award for her work in theatre. Recent publications include short stories published by Tor Books, Stone Skin Press, and Exile. Her story "Demoted" was featured in CZP's Imaginarium: Best Canadian Speculative Writing 2015. Her first novel, This Insubstantial Pageant, is out with ChiZine in Fall 2017.