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Catriona (Cat) Sparks (born 11 September 1965, Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian science fiction writer, editor and publisher. As manager and editor of Agog! Press with her partner, Australian horror writer Rob Hood, Sparks has produced ten anthologies of speculative fiction. She is also a writer, graphic designer, photographer and desktop publisher, with stories and artwork appearing in a selection of magazines and anthologies. She has won thirteen Ditmar Awards for writing, editing and artwork,〔(Locus magazine Ditmar winners list )〕 her most recent in 2014, when her short story ''Scarp'' was awarded a Ditmar for Best Short Story and 'The Bride Price' one for Best Collected Work.〔Ditmar Award Winners〕 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.〔(Conflux 5 Guest Bio )〕 Sparks has concentrated on her writing in recent years.〔(2007 Speculative Fiction Snapshot Interview ) by Alisa Krasnostein〕 In 2004 Sparks graduated the inaugural Clarion South Writers' Workshop in Queensland〔Clarion South Writers Workshop〕 and won third prize in the first quarter of the Writers of the Future competition.〔http://www.writersofthefuture.com/awards.htm (see 2005 section of page)〕 Her short fiction has been nominated for the Aurealis Awards in 2004, 2005, 2007 and 2008.〔(Aurealis Awards - Finalists )〕 Her short story ''Hollywood Roadkill'' won both the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story and the Golden Aurealis Award〔(Aurealis Award Winners )〕 in the 2007 Aurealis Awards. Her short story ''Seventeen'' won the Aurealis Award for Best Science young Adult Short Story〔(Aurealis Award Winners )〕 in the 2009 Aurealis Awards. In 2010 Sparks was announced as the new Fiction Editor of ''Cosmos'' magazine〔(cosmosmagazine.com )〕 replacing Damien Broderick.〔(Broderick Resigns from COSMOS )〕 In January 2012 she was one of 12 students chosen to participate in Margaret Atwood’s The Time Machine Doorway〔http://www.kwls.org/workshops/margaret-atwood-2/〕 workshop as part of the Key West Literary Seminar Yet Another World: literature of the future. Her participation was funded by an Australia Council emerging writers grant. In 2012 she became a provisional candidate for a Doctorate of Philosophy – Media, Culture and Creative Arts through Curtin University. Her 2013 collection ''The Bride Price'' won the Ditmar Award for Best Collection. An active member of Science Fiction Writers of America, her fiction is represented by Jill Grinberg Literary Management,〔(jillgrinbergliterary.com )〕 New York. ==Works edited== Anthologies edited and published by Sparks through Agog! Press * ''Agog! Ripping Reads'' (2006), ed. Cat Sparks, ISBN 0-8095-6237-5 * ''Agog! Smashing Stories'' (2004), ed. Cat Sparks, ISBN 0-9580567-3-0 * ''Agog! Terrific Tales'' (2003), ed. Cat Sparks, ISBN 0-9580567-2-2 * ''Agog! Fantastic Fiction'' (2002), ed. Cat Sparks, ISBN 0-9580567-0-6 * ''The Scary Food Cookbook, a compendium of gastronomic atrocity'' (2008), ed. Cat Sparks, ISBN 978-0-9580567-5-5 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Catriona Sparks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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