Cathie Koa Dunsford (born 1953) is a New Zealand novelist, poet, anthologist, lecturer and publishing consultant.

[7] Dunsford was an English lecturer at the University of Auckland, teaching literature, creative writing and publishing, from 1975.

[8][9] In 1998, writing for the Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, Janet Wilson noted "Dunsford's stable of lesbian, heterosexual, established and new writers ... makes her probably the most enterprising and eclectic independent publisher of women's fiction".

[10] Writers she had published at that time included Shonagh Koea, Marewa Glover, Keri Hulme, Lauris Edmond and Fiona Kidman.

It was published in Australia and New Zealand in 1994, and was described by David Hill as "lyrical to the edge of lushness, but buoyant with belief and commitment".

[4][12] She has a strong interest in environmentalism, a common theme in her works, and was the keynote speaker at the 2010 Oceanic Conference on Creativity and Climate Change in Suva, Fiji.