Profile

Cat Sparks managed Agog! Press from 2002 to 2008, an Australian independent press, that produced ten anthologies of new speculative fiction. She's known for her award-winning editing, writing, graphic design and photography. She was a graduate of the inaugural Clarion South Writers' Workshop and Writers of the Future prize winner in 2004. She has edited four anthologies of speculative fiction and forty-five+ of her stories have been published since the turn of the millennium. Cat has received nine Australian SF awards for writing, editing and art, including the Peter McNamara Convenors' Award for Excellence in 2004 for services to Australia's speculative fiction industry. She was the convenor of the Aurealis Awards Horror division in 2006. She is currently working on two novels, a novella and a handful of complicated short stories.