Kate Heartfield is the author of historical fantasy novels including The Tapestry of Time (2024), The Valkyrie (2023), and the Sunday Times bestseller The Embroidered Book (2022). Her debut novel was rereleased as The Chatelaine in 2023. She has also written interactive fiction through Choice of Games, and Assassin’s Creed novels. She won the Aurora Award for Best Novel three times, and her fiction been shortlisted for the Aurora, Nebula, World Fantasy, Crawford, Locus, Sunburst, Scribe and Ottawa Book awards. She is currently the Writer in Residence for the University of Ottawa. A former newspaper journalist, Kate lives in Canada with her partner and son and a black cat named Minerva.