About

I’m Kay. I write weird, intense, character-driven fantasy stories that wear their hearts on their sleeve and aren’t ashamed about it. I particularly love to write about broken things: systems, structures, but mostly people.

I was born in Albay, Bicol, the land of pili nuts, chili peppers, and that people with their fierce Bicolano pride (oragon ini!) We moved when I was very young, and most of my formative years was spent in Taguig, Metro Manila, in the slums outside a military base. There wasn’t a lot of safe places to play in–the closest thing we had to a playground was a parking lot and a sewage-filled river. And coming from a poor family, we didn’t have much to buy books, except mostly second hand or bargain bin items. I learned to make my own entertainment by writing, which I developed very early on by mimicking sentences from old classics like Call of the Wild, The Jungle Book, and Little Women.

We immigrated to Canada in my teens, where I continued writing as my family attempted to chase the North American Dream. Since then, I’ve juggled my writing career with motherhood, a whole heck of a lot of side projects, and a bit of civil design. I now live in Anmore, BC, a magical place where there are more trees than people. It’s wonderful.

All enquiries concerning rights to the Chronicles of the Bitch Queen can be directed to Hannah Bowman of Liza Dawson Associates. Email: HBowman@LizaDawson.com