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Kathleen Kaufman is a native Coloradan and long-time resident of Los Angeles. Her prose has been praised by Kirkus Reviews as “crisp, elegant” and “genuinely chilling” by Booklist. She is the author of The Tree Museum, The Lairdbalor, soon to be a feature film with Echo Lake Studios and director Nicholas Verso, and her most recent, Hag, due out in October 2018. Kathleen is a monster enthusiast, Olympic-level insomniac and aficionado of all things unsettling. When not writing, she can be found teaching literature and composition at Santa Monica College or hanging out with a good book. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, son, terrier and a pack of cats.
Gorgeously written, Hag intricately weaves a story from past to present. Readers longing to be swept away into another world will devour this book. --Megan Hart, NYT Bestselling Author of All the Lies We Tell Kaufman's Hag shifts the paradigm of masculine historical into feminist horror. The Cailleach, a powerful and ancient sea hag, sends her descendants into the world of man, where they endure war and heartbreak, insult and malice. This magical matriarchy, distinguished by the eldritch mark they bear, teach and heal and protect others as women have quietly done for untold ages. Discover centuries of Scottish history, revisit decades of the modern era, and reclaim a feminine form of storytelling passed down from mother to daughter unseen since the chronicles of the Brothers Grimm. -- Karen Bovenmyer, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Scholarship Awardee, Horror Writers Association I was intrigued with Hag by Kathleen Kaufman from the first sentences. Who was the Cailleach? What was her curse? Then, the book shifted into an ordinary child's viewpoint, though we learn later that Alice and her ancestors are a confusing mixture of magical and ordinary. The answers to those questions come in enchanting puzzle pieces that kept me reading! The aspects of time, brought out through the lovely metaphor of the ink penetrating layers of cloth, as reality happening alongside hers, and in the same breath was long past and nothing but a memory. The two worlds spun alongside each other, neither more nor less real than the other.... still has me thinking about concepts of time! I would recommend this book especially to readers intrigued with mythology and how time might work. --Geraldine Ann Marshall, author .. .a superb novel of heritage and struggle that just happens to be a brilliant witch story... Kaufman's prose is elegant and light allowing her story to come to the fore with ease leaving readers feeling light but yet resonant with the pages' meaning. A masterly blend of mythology and modernity, Hag is a supremely satisfying novel. --Daniel Casey, Misanthropester.com
