Kate Heartfield

Kate Heartfield‘s latest novel is The Valkyrie, a retelling of old legends. Her 2022 novel The Embroidered Book won Canada’s Aurora award, as did her debut novel, republished in a revised edition as The Chatelaine in 2023. She also writes Assassin’s Creed novels and interactive fiction, including The Road to Canterbury (2018), and The Magician’s Workshop (2019), from Choice of Games. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the World Fantasy, Nebula, Locus, Aurora, Sunburst and Crawford awards, and her journalism for a National Newspaper Award. Kate grew up in Manitoba and now lives at the rural edge of Ottawa.