05/13/2026
I wanted to say a proper hello ahead of this Sunday's soft opening! My name is Katrina, and I'm the witchy woman behind The Magic Dwarf Shoppe ✨🐇
A little about me: I'm a young adult urban fantasy author, born and bred in Montreal. My husband, pup, bunnies and I fell in love with Vankleek Hill the second we drove in and were welcomed by "The Gingerbread Capital of Ontario."
My fascination with mysticism and witchery stemmed from a super young age (around the Charmed era). My mom bought me my first "teen witch kit" back when Indigo was Chapters and the occult section was in a dark, dusty corner.
I wrote my debut Celtic-inspired novel, The Wise One—which is, surprise surprise, based on a teen witch 🧙♀️—as my MFA thesis. It's since won an international paranormal fiction award, been featured at literary festivals, gotten Editor's Pick by Publishers Weekly, and is now taught in EMSB schools. I finally released the final installment in The Scottish Scrolls trilogy this past March.
After nearly 10 years of writing this story, it felt time to do the other thing my soul's been yearning to do: open a witchy shoppe and support Canadian creators.
All this said, the only crucial things you should know about me are...
Nature inspires me I believe in faeries 🧚♂️ Intention is everything 👁️ Being weird is cool 🥸 Incarnating as a human is hard 🙈 There is, undoubtedly, magic all around us 💫
And I'm looking so forward to spreading it wherever and whenever I can.
Come pop into The Magic Dwarf Shoppe May 17!