K. A. Wiggins (Kaie) is an award-winning Canadian speculative fiction author whose quietly subversive works explore the tangled webs of society, environment, and identity through intricate, dreamlike tales of monsters and magic. Best known for gothic-dystopian YA+ Dark Fantasy series Threads of Dreams, a genrepunk saga of a haunted misfit storming monster-infested, post-eco-apocalypse Vancouver, her work has also appeared in Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction, Brave New Weird: Best New Weird Horror, Lightspeed Magazine, Strange Horizons, The NoSleep Podcast, Fantasy Magazine, and Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, among others. She also teaches with the Creative Writing for Children Society and leads the Children's Writers & Illustrators of British Columbia Society from her home in the Comox Valley, BC. Find her at kawiggins. com.