From Ancient Texts to Writing Horror

Dramatic orchestral music. Supernatural characters. The intensity of writing music.

Kailee Pedersen breaks down how opera has shaped her forthcoming novel, The Minimalist.

About guest

Kailee Pedersen writes haunted, unsettling speculative fiction. She graduated with a BA in classics from Columbia University, specializing in ancient Greek. Kailee was adopted from Nanning, China and grew up in Nebraska, where her family owns a farm. She is the author of the queer poetry chapbook Pastorale and the novel Sacrificial Animals, which was named one of the New York Public Library’s Best Books of 2024 and ...