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KATE CAYLEYis the author of several books, includingthe poetry book, Lent, and the short story collection,How You Were Born, winner of the Trillium Book Award and shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction. She has won the O. Henry Short Story Prize, the Mitchell Prize for Faith and Poetry, and the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction. She has been a finalist for the K. M. Hunter Award, the Carter V. Cooper Short Story Prize, and the Firecracker Award for Fiction, and been longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize and CBC Books Prizes in both poetry and fiction. Cayley lives in Toronto with her wife and their three children. ALAYNA MUNCE is a writer, editor, and publisher. In 2019, Alayna was named publisher of Brick Books, Canada's poetry-only press. Though her first love is poetry, she also writes and edits fiction. Her first novel, When I Was Young and In My Prime was nominated for the Trillium Book Award and appeared on the national bestseller list. She lives in the Parkdale neighbourhood of Toronto in a bustling blended family of six.
""How You Were Born is a stunning collection. These stories are unsettling in the best possible way: tender and pitiless, they take the reader by the hand, by the chin, sometimes even by the throat. Look, they say, this is what it is to be human. This is how strange, how unspeakably beautiful, it can be."" --Alissa York, author of Far Cry ""How You Were Born is an ideal literary companion. Slimish, perfectly packaged, each story its own realized vision."" --Pickle Me This ""Ariveting collection that continually surprises with its effortless blend of the psychological, the domestic, and the surreal. Whether she's exploring the lives of circus performers, over-imaginative children, or an elderly man convinced that his next-door neighbour is his doppelgänger, Cayley teases out unexpected insights, connections, dark secrets, and moments of transcendence."" --Trillium Book Award Jury Citation ""Cayley probes the circus that is the human heart and proves it to be wild and eccentric, big, and sometimes aching, often bursting with wisdom. Every scene is vivid; every character flesh and blood present. Every story in How You Were Born is delicately crafted, full of drama, epiphany, and strong emotion. Cayley's prose flashes with insight--transparent and true."" --Lisa Moore ""Cayley shows us, in How You Were Born, that the impulse to collect and then work through anxiety imaginatively is important and powerful.""--Cleaver Magazine ""Cayley writes with such exactness even the mundane is lush, and the outlandish hyperreal... Masterful."" --Electric Literature ""Cayley's collection is a series of tautly written, gripping tales full of emotional intelligence, especially when it comes to children's relationships."" --NOW Magazine
