Octavia Cade
Writer. Joined LPP in 2019.
Octavia Cade is an award-winning New Zealand science fiction writer. Seventy of her short stories have appeared in markets including Clarkesworld, F&SF, and Asimov’s; her latest book is the collection You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories from Stelliform Press. Her academic work also focuses on speculative fiction, and she’s had around thirty academic papers or book chapters published in venues including Horror Studies, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, SFRA Review, and anthologies from Routledge, McFarland, and various university presses. She attended Clarion West 2016 and has also received a Creative New Zealand Arts Grant. Octavia held the Ursula Bethell writer's residency at the University of Canterbury in 2023, and is the 2025 Robert Burns Fellow at the University of Otago.
You can find her at ojcade.com, or on Bluesky at @octavia-cade.
