Kate Cayley is the author of three poetry collections, including Lent , a young adult novel, and two short story collections. How You Were Born won the of the Trillium Book Award and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction. She has won the O. Henry Short Story Prize, the Mitchell Prize for Faith and Poetry, and the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction. She has been a finalist for the K. M. Hunter Award, the Carter V. Cooper Short Story Prize, and the Firecracker Award for Fiction, and longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize and the CBC Literary Prizes in both poetry and fiction.

Cayley's plays have been produced in Canada, the US and the UK, and she is a frequent collaborator with immersive company Zuppa Theatre. Cayley lives in Toronto with her wife and their three children. Alayna Munce ; s a writer, editor, and publisher. In 2019, Alayna was named publisher of Brick Books, Canada's poetry-only press. Though her first love is poetry, she also writes and edits fiction. Her first novel, When I Was Young and In My Prime (Nightwood Editions, 2005) was nominated for the Trillium Book Award and appeared on the national bestseller list. She is slowly working on a second novel and lives in the Parkdale neighbourhood of Toronto in a bustling blended family of six.