Contact information:
Contact Cat at catrambo AT gmail.com

Upcoming Appearances:
Norwescon, Seattle, April 2013.
WorldCon, San Antonio, August 2013
SteamCon, Bellevue, WA, October 2013
Orycon, Portland, November 2013

Short bio:

John Barth described Cat Rambo’s writings as “works of urban mythopoeia” — her stories take place in a universe where chickens aid the lovelorn, Death is just another face on the train, and Bigfoot gives interviews to the media on a daily basis. She has worked as a programmer-writer for Microsoft and a Tarot card reader, professions which, she claims, both involve a certain combination of technical knowledge and willingness to go with the flow. In 2005 she attended the Clarion West Writers’ Workshop. Among the places in which her stories have appeared are ASIMOV’S, WEIRD TALES, CLARKESWORLD, and STRANGE HORIZONS, and her work has consistently garnered mentions and appearances in year’s best of anthologies. Her collection, EYES LIKE SKY AND COAL AND MOONLIGHT was an Endeavour Award finalist in 2010 and followed her collaboration with Jeff VanderMeer, THE SURGEON’S TALE AND OTHER STORIES. Her most recent collection is NEAR + FAR, from Hydra House Books.

She has edited anthologies as well as critically-acclaimed Fantasy Magazine, is a member of the Codex Writers’ Group, and volunteers with Clarion West. Her work with Fantasy Magazine earned her a nomination for a World Fantasy Award in 2012. She teaches at Bellevue College as well as running a highly successful series of online classes.

Although no longer actively involved with the game, she is one of the minds behind Armageddon MUD, the oldest roleplay-intensive MUD (an interactive text-based game) on the Internet, which has been described as “like no other mud I have played before“, “the most entertaining game I’ve ever played“, “the most creative, emotionally involved mud on the Net” and “a place of astonishing beauty and detail“. She continues to do some game writing as well as technology journalism and reviews for Publishers Weekly.

Longer bio to come.

Pictures:

Photo by Cat Rambo

Fantasy and SF writer Cat Rambo in the San Juan Islands. Photo by Wayne Rambo.

Fantasy and SF writer Cat Rambo in Disneyland with a friend. Photo by Michael J. Francis.

Taken at World Fantasy Con, 2011. Photo Credit: On Focus Photos, http://onfocusphoto.com.

Resources:

• Fantasy Magazine
• Wikipedia article
• Official website

Interviews:

• Lightspeed Magazine, 9/2010, Author Spotlight by Erin Stocks
• Redstone Science Fiction, 7/1/2010, Interview by Michael Ray
• Novy MIRror, 6/30/2009, Video interview by Rick Novy
• Bibliophile Stalker, 9/2/2008, Interview by Charles Tan
• The Fix, 7/1/2008, Interview by Marshall Payne
• Ambling Along the Aqueduct, 9/4/2007, A Brief Conversation with Cat Rambo by L. Timmel Duchamp
• Interview with Genevieve Valentine for the Eyes Like Sky And Coal And Moonlight presskit