K. A. Laity

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K.A. Laity, Ph.D. is a Finnish-American medievalist and award-winning[citation needed] author, noted for the novel Pelzmantel: A Medieval Tale ISBN 978-1892718464 as well as numerous short stories, plays and scholarly essays.

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[edit] 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.[1]

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Fiction

  • Pelzmantel. Novel. Spilled Candy Books, February 1, 2003.
  • "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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Zines

  • Wombat's World (1996-2000, published irregularly, now a blog)

[edit] Plays

[edit] References

  1. ^ The College of Saint Rose: K. A. Laity

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