Kate Cayley is a fiction writer, poet, and playwright. She has published two short story collections, three collections of poetry, and a novel, Property (Coach House Books, 2025). Her plays have been performed in Canada, the US and the UK. She has won the Trillium Book Award, the Mitchell Prize for Poetry, and an O. Henry Prize, and been a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, among other awards. She was a playwright in residence with Tarragon Theatre, and wrote two plays for Tarragon, After Akhmatova and The Bakelite Masterpiece. She has taught writing and mentored emerging writers at the University of Toronto, Sheridan College, the Humber School for Writers, McMaster University, and the University of Guelph MFA program. She is a frequent writing collaborator with immersive company Zuppa Theatre, most recently on The Archive of Missing Things and This Is Nowhere, and her writing has appeared in Best Canadian Poetry, Best Canadian Stories, Brick, Electric Literature, Joyland, The New Quarterly and North American Review.