Vivette J. Kady grew up in South Africa where she studied architecture before immigrating to Canada and starting to write. She now lives in Toronto. Her fiction has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies in Canada and the United States, including The Journey Prize Anthology, Coming Attractions and Best Canadian Stories, and has been short-listed for the Journey Prize, a National Magazine Award, and a Western Magazine Award.

Vivette J. Kady is a seeing-eye human to a blind dog. She has climbed to the top of the highest dune in the Namib desert, and she used to be a go-go dancer, in South Africa.