Cathie Dunsford has taught literature at Auckland University, was Fulbright Post-Doctoral Research Scholar at the University of Berkeley from 1984 to 1986 and has directed three New Zealand Writers’ Conferences. In 1992 Cathie Dunsford completed a lecture tour of Europe, England and the USA and International Feminist Book Fairs in Montreal and Amsterdam.

Her own writing has appeared in publications in the USA, Canada, England, Australia and New Zealand. A bi-lingual collection of her poetry, Survivors: Uberlebende was published by the University of Osnabrück Press, Germany in 1990. She has edited many collections of writing, including the New Women’s Fiction Series. Her latest anthology, Me and Marilyn Monroe, published by Daphne Brasell Associates Press (NZ) challenges the war against women’s bodies through fiction.

Cathie Dunsford is director of Dunsford and Associates Publishing Consultants—a feminist owned and run company which searches for, assesses, edits and sells feminist texts to the publishing industry. She currently teaches Creative Writing and Publishing at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.