Nyle Kai is a writer, artist, and wild-hearted mythmaker with Māori roots and a mind wired for mystery. Born in Montreal and raised between languages, she first learned to read and write in French—but it wasn’t long before stories started writing her.

Inspired by the raw, fearless voice of Jack Kerouac, Nyle wrote 5 of Swords and Bathe Me in Firelight as a radical experiment: two novels, written in single drafts, uncensored and unfiltered. What emerged was a fierce, stream-of-consciousness odyssey through addiction, altered states, trauma, and the strange order of a world that refuses to name its god—but whispers something sacred anyway.

She’s walked a winding path—through the lecture halls of McGill, the backstreets of Boston, the serenity of Vermont, and even a short-lived graduate math program (which she left to follow painting, poetry, and a much stranger thread). Her Māori ancestry pulses quietly beneath it all, a lineage of storytellers and truth-keepers that informs every page.

Now she’s creating The Fifth Codex—a work-in-progress that blurs the lines between novel, myth, and metaphysical download. It weaves sacred geometry, soul memory, and nonlinear timelines into a reading experience unlike anything else.

Nyle lives in Vermont, where she writes in rhythm with the seasons, listens more than she speaks, and believes that the story you’re looking for might just be looking for you, too.