Kate Heartfield is the author of The Embroidered Book, a Sunday Times bestselling historical fantasy novel that won the Aurora Award and was shortlisted for the Ottawa Book Award. Her 2023 novel, The Valkyrie, reimagines Norse and Germanic legends. She also wrote the Alice Payne time travel novellas and her debut novel, Armed in Her Fashion, which won Canada’s Aurora Award and was republished in 2023 as The Chatelaine.
In interactive fiction, Kate created The Road to Canterbury and The Magician’s Workshop for Choice of Games. She expanded the Assassin’s Creed universe with The Magus Conspiracy and The Resurrection Plot. Her short stories, published in outlets like Strange Horizons, have been nominated for prestigious awards, including the Nebula and Locus.
A former journalist whose work earned a National Newspaper Award nomination, Kate now lives near Ottawa, Canada, crafting stories that captivate across genres.
