Kay Turner is an artist and scholar working across disciplines including performance, writing, music, and folklore. Her books include What a Witch: Before and After, with Zini Lardieri (2021); Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms, with Pauline Greenhill (2012) and Beautiful Necessity: The Art and Meaning of Women's Altars (1999). Since 2012 Turner's performance art works and writing have revolved around an exploration of the witch figure in folklore and history. She taught for 20 years in the Performance Studies Department at NYU. Turner has also led and written songs for numerous lesbian-forward rock bands including “Girls in the Nose,” “The Oral Tradition,” “Otherwise: Queer Scholarship into Song,” and her current band “Kay Turn Her and the Pages,” which is now streaming a few songs from their forthcoming album, World Wide Witch, due in early 2026. Turner lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Austin, TX.