Kay Hartley is a Creative Director in SaaS Marketing, living just west of the Rocky Mountains. By day, she crafts visual brand strategies and award-winning marketing campaigns. By night (and weekends, and lunch breaks, and that weird thirteen minutes between meetings), she follows her fictional disaster characters around, reporting on their messy, complicated, perfectly imperfect lives—and acquiring more yarn than any reasonable person needs.

She focuses on cozy contemporary romance about real people navigating the same things we all do, from neurodivergence and mental health challenges, to career crises and the terrifying vulnerability of being completely seen by another person. Her stories prove all you need to create a compelling escape is an insatiable curiosity to explore the human experience and a desperate need to tell that story.

When she's not writing or working, you can find her tending to her radishes just outside Pelican Town, crocheting, laughing with her IRL friends, and definitely not making another trip to the yarn store.