Catriona (Cat) Sparks (born 11 September 1965, Sydney, New South Wales)[1] is an Australian science fiction writer, editor and publisher.

Press with her partner, Australian horror writer Rob Hood, Sparks has produced ten anthologies of speculative fiction.

[3] She was nominated for the Aurealis Peter McNamara Convenors' Award for Excellence in 2003 and won one in 2004 for services to the Australian SF publishing industry.

In 2006 Sparks was convenor of the Horror judging panel of the Aurealis Awards, and in 2008 she was Guest of Honour at the Conflux 5 Science Fiction Convention in Canberra.

In January 2012 she was one of 12 students chosen to participate in Margaret Atwood’s The Time Machine Doorway[12] workshop as part of the Key West Literary Seminar Yet Another World: literature of the future.

In 2012 she became a provisional candidate for a Doctorate of Philosophy – Media, Culture and Creative Arts through Curtin University.