Kate Heartfield is the author of the historical fantasy novel Armed in Her Fashion (ChiZine 2018) and the two Alice Payne time travel novellas (Tor.com Publishing 2018/2019). She also writes interactive fiction, including The Road to Canterbury, published by Choice of Games in 2018. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the Nebula, Locus, Aurora and Crawford awards. Her novella “The Course of True Love” was published by Abaddon Books in the collection Monstrous Little Voices: New Tales from Shakespeare’s Fantasy World in 2016. Her short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Lackington’s, Escape Pod and elsewhere, and has been longlisted twice for the Sunburst Award. A former newspaper journalist, Kate lives in rural Ottawa, Canada. In 2015, she was a finalist for the National Newspaper Award in editorial writing. She teaches journalism at Carleton University, and creative writing online for the Loft Literary Center, and works as a freelance editor.