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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 34 million people halfway across the planet.
Since 2014, Kai has worked as an English teacher in Chongqing. In 2018, he became an editor at iChongqing, the city’s English-language news desk. He was the first Canadian journalist to report on the COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown in early 2020, and his syndicated diary column—written for both Chinese and Canadian (CTV News) audiences—was expanded into The Invisible War (Kai’s Diary), a bilingual epistolary novel published by New World Press and later re-released in English by Royal Collins. The book became an Amazon bestseller in China and was named one of the top 10 foreign-language books—and one of the 25 most notable books overall—published in China that year.
On October 31, 2022, Kai released Amos the Amazing, a solarpunk fantasy novel 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 released in Chinese to domestic and global markets in 2025 through a major mainland press. The book aims to inspire readers young and old to be a little more hopeful—and a lot more proactive—about protecting our beautiful planet.
His latest novel, The Sun Also Rises on Cthulhu, released on April 1, 2025, is a bold reimagining of Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, co-authored with the late Nobel laureate via the public domain. Fusing Hemingway’s minimalist prose with the cosmic dread of H.P. Lovecraft, it’s been hailed as “a cosmic cocktail of Hemingway and Lovecraft—graceful, stylish, and gloriously strange. A wild ride” (Robert Rivenbark). 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. Author Donna Sundblad called it “a haunting, thought-provoking experience that seamlessly blends literary depth with psychological terror.”
Kai enjoys speaking in foreign languages—because it makes life feel more mysterious—and playing guitar and eating pizza just as much as he hopes you enjoy his books. He lives at the confluence of the Yangtze and Jialing Rivers with his large and loving family, first as a man, and forever after as the most immortal of all supernatural beasts: a writer.
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