Kate Heartfield is a Canadian author of fantasy, science fiction, horror, as well as a non-fiction writer and editor.

Life

Heartfield was born in 1977 in

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, and grew up in

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. She received a degree in political science from the

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and a master of journalism degree from

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. She worked as an editorial board member and columnist for the ''

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'' from 2004-2015, and was editorial pages editor for the paper from 2013-2015. She was nominated for Canada's Canada's National Newspaper Award in the category of Editorial Writing category in 2015. She now teaches journalism at Carleton University and creative writing online for The Loft Literary Center. She lives in rural

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Literary career

Heartfield's first published fiction appeared in the March 2013 issue of ''Black Treacle''. She belongs to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, the Historical Novel Scoeity, the Writers' Union of Canada, Ottawa's East Block Irregulars, and the Codex writers' group. She was a member of the board of the Ottawa International Writers Festival from 2011-2014, a member of the science fiction jury for the Ottawa Book Award in 2017, and is currently (2020) on the novel jury for the Sunburst Award. Heartfield's writing has appeared in various periodicals, anthologies and podcasts, including ''Alice Unbound: Beyond Wonderland'', ''Black Treacle'', ''Clockwork Canada'', ''Curiosities'', ''

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'', ''49th Parallels'', ''GlitterShip'', ''Kaleidotrope'', ''Lackington's'', ''Liminal Stories'', ''Monstrous Little Voices: New Tales from Shakespeare's Fantasy World'', ''Murder Mayhem Short Stories'', ''

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'', ''Postscripts to Darkness #4'', ''Shades Within Us: Tales of Migrations and Fractured Borders'', ''Spellbound'', ''

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'', ''Tesseracts Twenty-One: Nevertheless'', ''Tesseracts Twenty-Two: Alchemy and Artifacts'', and ''Waylines''. Heartfield has also written for Choice of Games. Heartfield was announced as the author of then-upcoming ''

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'' novel ''The Magus Conspiracy'' in June 2022 as part of the series' 15th anniversary celebration. She was interviewed by community developer Sebasteann Barradas about the novel, including that it was to be the first of an expected trilogy entitled, ''The Engine of History''. It was officially released on 2 August in the

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and 8 September for the

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. A sequel, ''The Resurrection Plot'' is tentatively slated for a 2023 release.

Recognition

Heartfield's novel ''Armed in her Fashion'' won the 2019 Aurora Award for Best Novel - English, was nominated for the 2019 Sunburst Award - Adult, and placed eighth in the 2019 Locus Poll Award for Best First Novel. Her interactive medieval adventure novel ''The Road to Canterbury'' was nominated for the 2019

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. Her novella ''Alice Payne Arrives'' was nominated for the 2019

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and the 2019 Aurora Award for Best Short Fiction - English. Her stories "The Seven O'Clock Man," "Not Valid for Spain," and "A Threadbare Carpet" were preliminary nominees for the Sunburst Award.

Bibliography

Novels

*''Armed in Her Fashion'' (2018) *''The Embroidered Book'' (2022)

Interactive novels

*''The Road to Canterbury'' (2018) *''The Magician's Workshop'' (2019)

Alice Payne

*''Alice Payne Arrives'' (2018) *''Alice Payne Rides'' (2019)

The Engine of History

*''Assassin's Creed: The Magus Conspiracy'' (2022) *''Assassin's Creed: The Resurrection Plot'' (2023)

Short stories

References

External links

My Favorite Bit: Kate Heartfield talks about ARMED IN HER FASHION

My Favorite Things with Kate Heartfield
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