About Kate LSY
Kate LSY lives just north of Toronto with her partner and their four-legged menace. A professional ruminator, she writes stories about Death, devotion, and the soft absurdity of being alive.
A surprisingly proud winner of the Inkwell Literary Festival, she fences for fun, works in tech by day, and occasionally mistakes head-banging on a keyboard for writing. Some of her work can be found at www.katelsy.ca
A Conversation with Kate LSY
We sat down with Kate LSY to discuss her writing journey, creative process, and what inspires her stories. Get an inside look at her experiences and learn valuable insights from a fellow writer in our community.
Do you have a current work in progress? Can you tell us a bit about it?
Yes! I’m currently expanding my vignette series Death’s Darling Diary into a full manuscript. It’s a story about Death and the one soul he can’t seem to stop watching—a relationship that spans centuries, full of dry humour, devotion, and inconvenient feelings for an immortal. You can find snippets at katelsy.ca, if you’d like to meet them early.
Why do you write?
I write because the narrator in my head gets too loud sometimes, and the emotions grow too big to contain. Writing is both painful and cathartic—it’s peeling back a wound, distilling what hurts, and stripping away the noise until I find myself in the rawest form. It’s an excavation of the self. Sometimes, beneath all that pain, I find a pocket of forgotten joy. Other times, beneath delight, I find lessons I didn’t know I was looking for. Either way, it would be a shame to let them go to waste.
Where do your ideas come from?
Mostly from the small, mundane moments that linger just long enough for me to ask, “what if?” The first snowfall. The way silence suddenly has a sound, and it’s too loud. I start wondering what my characters would make of it—in this case, what Death might think of snow that falls before the leaves are ready to let go. I tend to notice these tiny collisions in life and turn them into conversations. I love to personify just about anything.
To learn more about Kate LSY and her writing, please visit her website.