K. A. Laity

K. A. Laity

K.A. Laity, Ph.D. is a Finnish-American medievalist and award-winningFact|date=August 2007 author, noted for the novel "Pelzmantel: A Medieval Tale" ISBN 978-1892718464 as well as numerous short stories, plays and scholarly essays.

Career overview

A native of Lansing, Michigan, K.A. Laity is, in 2007, completing work on "Unikirja", a collection of short stories based on the Kalevala, Kanteletar, and other Finnish myths and legends. Her father's family emigrated from Finland and, consequently, a substantial portion of her writing output is concerned with Finnish culture. She is also a full-time professor of English literature, creative writing and film at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York. [ [http://academic2.strose.edu/Arts_and_Humanities/laityk/ The College of Saint Rose: K. A. Laity] ]

Bibliography

Fiction

*"Pelzmantel". Novel. Spilled Candy Books, February 12003.
** 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

* [http://www.kalaity.com/ K. A. Laity Homepage]
* [http://www.matrifocus.com/BEL05/review-fiction.htm Review of Laity's novel]


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