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Katrina LemaireBased in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Katrina holds a Bachelor's (Honours) in English and Creative Writing and is currently completing her Publishing Certificate at Toronto Metropolitan University. With a history of sales, marketing, and an insatiable hunger for literature, she inevitably found herself pursuing a path in publishing. She is a Reader for Flash Fiction Magazine where she works directly with submission ‘slush piles’ and evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of each story by voting and providing constructive feedback. Katrina is also part of the Toronto Writers’ Centre where she takes part in writing workshops and open mic nights. She is known for her poetry and short fiction pieces which have been published in Sad Girl Diaries, Plenitude Magazine, QueerScifi Magazine, and Beyond Words Magazine among others.
When it comes to her taste in books, Katrina is often found devouring the pages of decadent fantasies set in worlds with high or low stakes, dark academia with cult/occult aspects, speculative fiction, horror, graphic novels, gothic literature, noir fiction, paranormal, romance, urban fantasy, mystery, and anything that leans towards the uncanny. Within these genres, specifically in crossover, YA, and middle grade, Katrina is always looking for more queer and BIPOC representation that feature tenacious and palpable characters. |
Katrina's Favorite Books
- The Honeys by Ryan La Sala
- Women, Eating by Claire Kohda
- Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
- So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole
- Babel by R.F. Kuang
- The Forest Demands Its Due by Kosoko Jackson
- Bitten by Kelley Armstrong
- Goosebumps series by R. L. Stine
- Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal
- Monstress by Marjorie Liu
