Octavia Cade is a New Zealand writer. She has a Masters in biology and a PhD in science communication, and she likes using speculative fiction to talk about science in new and interesting ways. She’s primarily concerned with climate fiction — her climate novel, The Stone Wētā, was published in 2020 by Paper Road Press — and how humans might cope with the challenging world that climate change will bring. She’s sold over 50 stories to markets such as Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, and Strange Horizons. Two poetry collections, a short story collection, an essay collection on food and horror, and several novellas have been published by various small presses. She has won three Sir Julius Vogel awards for speculative writing, and is an HWA and SFWA member and Bram Stoker nominee. Octavia attended Clarion West 2016, and was a 2020 visiting artist at Massey University/Square Edge in NZ.