Beth Cato (born January 13, 1980) is an American speculative fiction writer and poet,[1][2] best known for her Clockwork Dagger and Blood of Earth series.

[3][1][4] She married Navy sailor Jason Cato in 2000; in the course of his naval career they traveled the country, living at various times in South Carolina and Washington.

They settled in Arizona after Jason left the Navy,[3] where they live in Buckeye,[5] near Phoenix, with their son and three cats.

[1][2] Her fiction has appeared in various periodicals, podcasts and anthologies, including A is for Apocalypse, At Year's End: Holiday SFF Stories, B is for Broken, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Blue Shift, C is for Chimera, Cast of Wonders, Cats in Space, Clockwork Phoenix 5, Coffee: 14 Caffeinated Tales of the Fantastic, Crossed Genres, Cucurbital 3, D is for Dinosaur, Daily Science Fiction, Decision Points, E is for Evil, Electric Spec, Escape Pod, Every Day Fiction, F is for Fairy, Fae, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Fantastique Unfettered #3, Fantasy Scroll Magazine, Far-Fetched Fables, Fireside Magazine, Fireside Quarterly, Future Science Fiction Digest, Futures, Galactic Games, Giftmas 2018 Advent Anthology, Kasma Magazine, Little Green Men—Attack!, Mountain Magic, Mysterion, Nature, Not Just Rockets and Robots, Oomph: A Little Super Goes a Long Way, Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, The Overcast, The Pedestal Magazine, Penumbra, Perihelion, PodCastle, Rocket Dragons Ignite, Science Fiction Short Stories, Spektrum der Wissenschaft, StarShipSofa, Stupefying Stories, Surviving Tomorrow, Swords and Steam Short Stories, Toasted Cake, 2016 Young Explorer's Adventure Guide, The 2021 Rhysling Anthology: The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror Poetry of 2020, Uncanny Magazine, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader presents Flush Fiction, Utopia Science Fiction, Waylines, Year Five, and Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction 2013.

[1] "The Death of the Horse" and "Morning During Migration Season" were both preliminary nominees for the 2017 Rhysling Award for Best Long Poem.