K.S.R. Kingworth is the pen name of Kare Parker (pronounced keh-ree) a multilingual author, philologist, and musician who has spent the better part of her life listening for words that have not been spoken yet.

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She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, taught herself ancient Greek at fourteen for the pleasure of it, raised her children speaking French in the home, and has lived on three continents. She she studied for a term at Cambridge, and graduated in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing from the University of Utah. She currently writes from San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, in a place her neighbors call The Nosebleed, high on a hill above a colonial city whose walls are painted ochre and rose and deep teal.

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In July 2023, while cat sitting on a street whose name translates to Souls, she heard a single word whispered in her ear. Primørdiya. Above her head she saw a completed puzzle, every piece assembled, facing away from her. The picture was facing the stars. She understood immediately that she would spend years turning it around.

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Nearly three years later, Carli Rockell and the Fire Seed is that picture, finally turned around.

Her previous middle grade fantasy, Secret Speakers and the Search for Selador’s Gate, received a starred review from School Library Journal and was compared to the works of Tolkien, Rowling, Lewis, and the Wizard of Oz. It was narrated by Simon Vance and sold primarily to libraries across the United States.

 

After fourteen years of silence she returned to writing because a story arrived that she could not refuse. And because her mother got up off her knees one afternoon, called at exactly the right moment, and said I just finished praying you would keep writing for youth.

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The Primørdiya trilogy features a fully constructed language Kingworth build from the ground up, based on Native language grammatical structures that often indicate action as ongoing. She conceived a music vision for memorable scenes in the story and produced an original 22 track orchestral soundtrack with AI assistance to bring what she had sensed to life. Each track corresponds to a scene in the story. She omposed in the spirit of Joe Hisaishi, and a magic system rooted in the actual physics of a unified field. It was built for the screen from its first breath.

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K.S.R. Kingworth believes that good stories are good medicine. That the world is stranger and more beautiful than anyone told us. And that it’s good to be alive.