Catriona Sparks

Catriona Sparks is an Australian editor, publisher, and science fiction writer who was born on September 11, 1965 in Sydney, New South Wales. Moreover, she is the editor and manager of Agog! Press, with her Australian horror writer partner, Rob Hood. Together, they were able to produce eight speculative fiction anthologies. In addition, Sparks is a writer, photographer, desktop publisher, and graphic designer whose artwork and stories appear in a selection of anthologies and magazines.

Sparks has earned eight Ditmar Awards for her artwork and editing, wherein her latest award was in 2008 for her ‘A Lady of Adestan’ short story, which was awarded a Ditmar award for the Best Australian Novella/Novelette category. Additionally, she was also nominated in 2003 for the Award for Excellence by Aurealis Peter McNamara Convenors and eventually won the award for her services rendered to the Australian SF publishing business in 2004. Moreover in 2006, she was one of the Aurealis Awards’ Horror judging panel’s convenor, and likewise in 2008, she was the Conflux 5 Science Fiction Convention’s Guest of Honour in Canberra.

In recent years, Sparks has been concentrating on her writing and in 2004, she graduated in Queensland from the first Clarion South Writers' Workshop and was the third placer in the Writers of the Future competition’s first quarter.

urthermore, Sparks’ short fiction writings were recently nominated in the years 2004 through 2008 for Aurealis Awards, and her prestigious ‘Hollywood Roadkill’ short story won both the Golden Aurealis Award and the Aurealis Award for the category of Best Science Fiction Short Story in 2007. In addition, her written fiction has been published in both the international and Australian markets