Designer, Art Director, and Writer
Based in Oregon, USA
Kira earned her BFA in Communication Design from the University of North Texas, before going on to work as a designer and art director. She currently works as a visual designer at Wyld.
Some of her favorite TV shows include Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Game of Thrones, Dark, and Madmen. In Adult Fiction and Fantasy, she especially loves Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo, Masters of Death by Olivie Blake, Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn, and Juniper & Thorn by Ava Reid, among many others.
Her design portfolio can be found at kirabruner.net, and information about her completed manuscripts can be found below. To contact Kira, please use the contact form linked at the bottom of the page.
Nora and the Nightmare King
(Middle Grade)The Pitch: In this eerie tale of found family, Nora and her friends must work together and face their deepest fears—grief, anxiety, insecurity, and abandonment—to take down the ominous spirit haunting their dreams.
Excerpt from Chapter 1
“The cab was jostled as it drove down the bumpy gravel road, knocking Nora from side to side. She did her best to keep her elbow from hitting the armrest of the car’s chunky, wood-paneled door but was unsuccessful. If she had her cell phone with her, she would have listened to music or watched videos, but her parents had confiscated it as an added punishment. So, she had to settle for watching the rain streak the cab’s windows. It was coming down so hard that she could barely see anything outside, the trees on either side of the road becoming nothing more than a tangled blur of bare branches.”
🏆 Nora and the Nightmare King recently made the 2025 Gertrude Warner Long List for Middle Grade Fiction
Illustrations by Savannah Lazo
Small Things
(Adult Speculative)The Pitch:
An anxious, unqualified housekeeper must travel to the Underworld to save the life of her hot, bookish, folklore-hunting employer in this contemporary reimagining of Grimm’s “The White Snake.”
Excerpt from Chapter 7
“She should quit her job, run far away from this house, and leave all of Sulli’s family drama and his weird, serial killer-like hobbies behind, but she wasn’t going to do any of that, because if Sulli’s books were his obsession, he was hers.”
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Familiar Ground
(Adult High/Urban Fantasy)
– Multiple POV
– LGBTQ+ Representation
– Witches and Familiars
Excerpt from Chapter 2
“It was autumn and the snow had not yet begun to fall. She longed for the winter, for the quiet snowy nights, spiked apple cider garnished with cloves and cinnamon sticks, and for the scary stories that were often shared around the warmth of a roaring fire.”
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