Linda Kay Hardie is an award-winning writer of short stories in various genres, including crime, horror, and SF/fantasy (often with humor). She also writes essays (usually about cats but sometimes baseball), poetry, and is working on longer works. Her stories appear in many anthologies, including Lunatic Fringe, Gag Me With a Spoon, A Killing at the Copa, Sex & Violins, and The Perp Wore Pumpkin from White City Press.

Linda Kay’s children’s picture book, Louie Larkey and the Bad Dream Patrol, was published by Moon Mountain Publishing. Her historical mystery story, “The Priestess’s Namesake,” was published in Cricket magazine in 2024.

She’s won a variety of awards (first one in 5th grade for an essay on fire safety, sponsored by the fire department) from various groups: international Cat Writers Assn.; California Assn. of Community Colleges; Assn. of California School Administrators; Thinking Funny comedy writing community; and Sierra Arts Foundation.

She’s a member of Horror Writers Association, Short Mystery Fiction Society, Queer Crime Writers, Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators, and Cat Writers Association. In addition to being a writer, Linda Kay is an Abyssinian Rescue Ranger, a volunteer foster mom in purebred cat rescue, and a professional teddy bear builder. See her portfolio at https://sierraarts.org/user/linda.kay.hardie/

Tune in to the podcast Misti Media Live! on the first and third Tuesdays of each month (and the occasional fifth) at 5 p.m. Pacific time/8 p.m. Eastern. Author Linda Kay Hardie joins Misti Media editor-in-chief Jay Hartman to talk, argue, and rant about writing and publishing. See more at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JLJLrvP-5s