About

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Catherine Tavares is a speculative fiction author and member of both SFWA and Codex. Her work has been featured on the Nebula Reading List, Reactor’s Must Reads, and Locus Online, and her short story “Ghosts of Summer” won the 2025 Apex Reader’s Choice Award for Best Original Fiction. Her stories can be found in magazines such as The Dark, Nature Futures, Flash Point SF, Heartlines, and more. An avid reader, she spends most of her time haunting the shelves of her local library, but she can on occasion be persuaded to try a new recipe, work on a knitting project, or abandon her cozy aesthetic altogether to play survival horror video games. Read her work and learn more about her at catherinetavares.com.

Affiliations:
Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA)–Full Member
Codex Writers Group

Online:
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AI Statement:
I do not use Generative AI.

To the best of my knowledge and ability: I don’t use AI for any stage of the writing process for any of my work, including my fiction, nonfiction, and my social media, website, and newsletter content; I have turned off or deleted all AI-related features attached to any program or service I use or moved to a different, AI-free program/service entirely; I do not submit my work to publishers that knowingly use and/or support AI; and any content I use not created by myself (i.e. public domain/stock images) I endeavor to ensure has not been AI-generated/edited in any way. Furthermore, I do not consent to have any of my work fed into any AI program for any purpose.

Everything written and edited by me is written and edited by me.