Kat then explained that she got the idea to change her name after visiting with a family friend, children’s fantasy author Lloyd Alexander. “Randomly, he was my mother’s best friend,” she said. “So I went there every week until I was 15 years old, and they were like my grandparents, he and his wife. And his wife’s name was Janine Denni, she was French. And I thought it would be a super sick idea if I took her name and made it different. Literally, that was the thinking. That’s as far as it went. So Dennings is from her.”