K.I. Press : part one

K.I. Press is a writer in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her four books are Pale Red Footprints (Pedlar, 2001), Spine (Gaspereau, 2004), Types of Canadian Women (Gaspereau, 2006), and Exquisite Monsters (Turnstone, 2015). She has an MA in English from the University of Ottawa and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. She teaches writing at Red River College in Winnipeg. kipress.ca

What are you working on?

I am working on a fantasy novel about theatre students who go to a Shakespeare world—not an Elizabethan world, but a world where everything plays out like it is on a stage. Time and space work differently, and the Shakespearean characters, though they are run amok by the standards of anyone who knows their stories, live with a profound sense of fatalism, because they know their outcomes are determined by a mysterious script. Also: pregnant action hero. (Of course, all this could change by the time I really finish the darn thing.)