# Kate Cayley

kate cayley is a Canadian writer and theatre director. She was the artistic director of Stranger Theatre and was playwright-in-residence at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre from 2009 to 2017.As a playwright, her plays have included The Yellow Wallpaper Project, The Hanging of Françoise Laurent, Clown of God, And What Alice Found There, The Counterfeit Marquise, After Akhmatova and The Bakelite Masterpiece.She won the Geoffrey Bilson Award in 2012 for her young adult novel The Hangman in the Mirror, and the Trillium Book Award in 2015 for her short story collection How You Were Born. She was also shortlisted for a ReLit Award in 2014 for her poetry collection How This World Comes to an End, and for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2015 Governor General's Awards for How You Were Born.