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Someone once told Jorah Kai to write what he knew—but since he was twelve and knew very little, the avid reader set off on a lifelong journey to master a wide range of esoteric subjects. Along the way, he’s been a student, martial artist, musician, English teacher, newspaper columnist, editor, web designer, dance‑music producer and touring DJ, Black Rock City existential detective and philosopher, fire‑breathing gypsy circus performer, stand‑up comedian, and family man. These adventures led him to profound insights into the human condition—and eventually to Chongqing, China, a solarpunk megacity of thirty‑four million people halfway across the planet.
Kai always dreamed of becoming a writer. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing and English Literature (Poetry) from Dalhousie University; received an award in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia; and was honored by the Chongqing Journalists Association for his syndicated column, Kai’s Diary. Featured on CTV News during the early days of the pandemic, Kai’s Diary was named one of the top ten books of 2020 by China’s Foreign Affairs Office.
Since 2014, Kai has taught English in Chongqing, and in 2018 he joined iChongqing’s English‑language news desk as an editor. As the first Canadian journalist to report on China’s COVID‑19 outbreak and lockdown, he expanded his daily reflections into The Invisible War (Kai’s Diary), a bilingual epistolary novel published by New World Press and later released in English by Royal Collins. The book became an Amazon bestseller in China and was named one of the twenty‑five most notable books published there that year.
On October 31, 2022, Kai released Amos the Amazing, a solarpunk fantasy he describes as somewhere between Chinese Harry Potter and an especially psychedelic Alice in Wonderland. Published by More Publishing—a new imprint he co‑founded to support English‑language authors in China—Amos will be translated into Chinese for domestic and global release in 2025 via a major mainland press, aiming to inspire readers of all ages to embrace hope and environmental stewardship.
His latest novel, The Sun Also Rises on Cthulhu, appeared on April 1, 2025. A bold reimagining of Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, co‑authored with the late Nobel laureate via the public domain, it fuses Hemingway’s minimalist prose with the cosmic dread of H.P. Lovecraft. Critics have hailed it as “a cosmic cocktail of Hemingway and Lovecraft—graceful, stylish, and gloriously strange.” Described by Ava of Coffee Book Couch as “a fever dream with a beating heart… a love letter to lost souls wrapped in cosmic dread,” and by Dragonfly Reads as “a slow‑simmering pot of cosmic gumbo—rich, strange, and full of surprises,” the novel has struck a chord with fans of literary horror and mythos mashups.
Kai makes his home at the confluence of the Yangtze and Jialing Rivers in Chongqing with his dancing, singing wife; their gaming son; their fashion‑savvy daughter; and two beloved grandchildren, Ethan and Naomi—while his brave, musical mother and hockey‑loving father cheer him on from Canada.
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