Bio

Cat Sparks is a multi-award-winning Australian author, editor and artist with a PhD examining the intersection between ecocatastrophe science fiction and climate fiction [Capitalocene Dreams: Dark Tales of Near Futures & The 21st Century Catastrophe: Hyper-capitalism and Severe Climate Change in Science Fiction]

Career highlights include five years as Fiction Editor of Cosmos Magazine, directing two speculative fiction festivals for Writing NSW, Panellist at events ranging from South by Southwest in Austin to ACMI in Melbourne to Science Fiction as a Lens into Future War seminar at the Centre for Defence Research ADC. Other achievements include Agog! Press, which produced ten anthologies of new speculative fiction from 2002-2008, working as an archaeological dig photographer in Jordan, studying with Margaret Atwood in Florida, 90+ published short stories, two collections – The Bride Price (2013) and Dark Harvest (2020) and a far future novel, Lotus Blue (2017) best described as ‘Mad Max meets Ghost in the Shell‘.

Calvaria Fell, a shared world collection with Kaaron Warren, was published by Meerkat Press in 2024.

Climate activist, artist, photographer, crazy bird lady.
@catsparx

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