Liana Kerzner

Liana Kerzner (nee Kitchen, born ), known professionally by her stage name Liana K, is a Canadian YouTuber. She is also a former television writer, producer, and host. She co-hosted the final season of the variety show Ed's Night Party with her husband . She is also a video game journalist and hobbyist cosplayer.
Biography
Liana Kerzner was born in 1978 She briefly studied English literature and anthropology at York University.
Career
She began dating Steven Kerzner in 1995, after they met in a bar. In 1997 she dropped out of university, when she was hired for behind-the-scenes work on Ed's Night Party with Kerzner, whom she married in 1999. He named her his co-producer and co-head writer of Night Party and by 2004 she joined Ed the Sock, voiced by her husband, to become the first female co-host on the show, which was renamed Ed & Red's Night Party for what would become its final season. and has appeared at a number of comic book and science fiction fan conventions to promote the comic and Ed's Night Party. From the fall of 2009 to September 2010, Liana and Steven Kerzner were the hosts of the weekly radio show Sunday Nights with Liana and Steven (also known as Steven & Liana) on Newstalk 1010 in Toronto. and has written as a video game critic for 411MANIA and GamingExcellence, also writing about tabletop and live-action role-playing games. She has also been a contributor for other gaming outlets, such as Gameranx and Polygon.
According to Kerzner, she also previously worked as a convention "booth babe". She co-edited science fiction and fantasy short story collection Wrestling with Gods: Tesseracts Anthology #18 with Jerome Stueart in 2014.
Fandom activities and private life
Kerzner has been a guest and presenter at several comic book and science fiction events across Canada, usually appearing dressed in character-based cosplay costumes. She and Ed the Sock were named co-hosts of the 2007 Constellation Awards. She also organized and hosted the Aurora Awards ceremony at the 67th World Science Fiction Convention in 2009. She was a co-founder of Toronto's annual science fiction convention Futurecon in 2010 and chaired it until it ceased to exist in 2012. It was also sponsored by her husband's company Kerzner MediArts.
The Secret Six comic book character Liana Kerzner, a red-headed stripper hired to jump out of a cake dressed like Scandal Savage's dead girlfriend Knockout, was named after her. Savage rejected her advances but later sees the stripper at a supermarket, and when Knockout is resurrected invites Liana to enter into a polygamous relationship with them. She agreed but the story was not revisited.
Liana K identifies as a sex-positive feminist, and her hobbies include collecting action figures and other toys. Other series include A Gamer's Guide to Feminism, and Lady Bits.

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