In 2004 she was a graduate of the inaugural Clarion South Writers' Workshop in Queensland.

Highlights of her career so far include: winning a trip to Paris in a Bulletin Magazine photography competition; being appointed official photographer for two NSW Premiers; working as dig photographer on three archaeological expeditions to Jordan, and winning seven DITMAR awards.

Three of her stories were nominated for Aurealis Awards in 2007. She was nominated for the Aurealis Peter MacNamara Conveners Award in 2003 and won one in 2004 for services to the Australian SF publishing industry. In January 2004 she won third prize in the first quarter of the Writers of the Future competition. Click here for photos of her 2005 American adventure. In 2007, Cat's story 'Hollywood Roadkill' was awarded both the Aurealis Award for best short science fiction story and the Golden Aurealis for best Australian speculative fiction story of the year. Her story A Lady of Adestan, published in Orb magazine, won the best novella Ditmar in 2007.

Cat lives with her partner, author Robert Hood, and their three cats, Smersh, Pazuzu and Nemo.