Cat Rambo
Cat Rambo
Born	(1963-11-14) November 14, 1963 (age 60) Bryan, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Writer, editor
Genre	Science fiction, fantasy
Website
kittywumpus.net

Cat Rambo (born November 14, 1963) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and editor. Rambo uses they/them pronouns.^[1] Rambo was co-editor of Fantasy Magazine^[2][3] from 2007 to 2011, which earned them a 2012 World Fantasy Special Award: Non-Professional nomination. They collaborated with Jeff VanderMeer on The Surgeon's Tale and Other Stories, published in 2007.

Their short stories have appeared in such places as Asimov's Science Fiction, Clarkesworld Magazine and Tor.com.^[4] In 2012, their story "Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain" was a Nebula Award finalist. Their first novel, Beasts of Tabat, was published by Wordfire Press in 2015 and is the first of a fantasy quartet.

Rambo writes predominantly fantasy and science fiction. They collaborated in a new weird round-robin writing project for editors by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer, published in the 2008 anthology The New Weird ("Festival Lives", pp. 365).^[5][6]

A graduate of the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and Clarion West, they also work with Armageddon MUD, as Sanvean,^[7] and write gaming articles. Their background in technology writing includes work for Microsoft and Security Dynamics. They are a member of the Codex Writers Group and, in 2008, was appointed chair of the Copyright Committee of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).^[3]

In 2008, they donated their archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University.^[8]

Rambo served two two-year terms as President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America from 2015 through 2019^[9][10] following one year as Vice President.

They were the co-editor with Fran Wilde of Ad Astra: the SFWA 50th Anniversary Cookbook (2015).^[11] Rambo will be the Writer Guest of Honor at Norwescon 44 in April, 2022.^[12]

• —— (2021). You Sexy Thing (hardcover 1st ed.). Tor Books. pp. 1–304. ISBN 978-1250269300.
• —— (2022). Devil's Gun (hardcover 1st ed.). Tor Books. pp. 1–272. ISBN 978-1250269355.
• —— (2024). Rumor Has It (hardcover 1st ed.). Tor Books. pp. 1–256. ISBN 978-1250269393.

• —— (2015). Beasts of Tabat (paperback ed.). Colorado Springs: WordFire Press. pp. 1–326. ISBN 978-1614752974.
• —— (2018). Hearts of Tabat. Colorado Springs: WordFire Press. pp. 1–428. ISBN 978-1614756378.
• —— (2021). Exiles of Tabat (hardcover ed.). Colorado Springs: WordFire Press. ISBN 978-1680571844.

• —— (2022). Gods of Tabat. WordFire Press.

• ——; Turtledove, Harry; Morrow, James K. (2020). And the Last Trump Shall Sound (paperback ed.). CAEZIK SF & Fantasy. pp. 1–210. ISBN 978-1647100056.^[13]

• —— (2011). Clockwork Fairies (ebook ed.). Tor Books. pp. 1–32. ISBN 978-1429927567.
• —— (2019). Carpe Glitter (paperback 1st ed.). Meerkat Press. pp. 1–62. ISBN 978-1946154538.

• —— & VanderMeer, Jeff (2007). The Surgeon's Tale and Other Stories. Prime. pp. 1–100. ISBN 978-0809572687.
• —— (2009). Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight (paperback 1st ed.). Paper Golem Press. pp. 1–175. ISBN 978-0979534959.
• —— (2012). Near + Far (paperback ed.). Seattle: Hydra House. pp. 1–318. ISBN 978-0984830145.
• —— (2016). Altered America: Steampunk Stories (kindle ed.). pp. 1–168.

• —— (2016). Neither Here Nor There (hardcover 1st ed.). Hydra House. ISBN 978-0989082884.

• "The Bumblety's Marble" (2008) in Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy (ed. Ekaterina Sedia)
• "Clockwork Fairies" (2011). Tor.com. ISBN 9781429927567.
• "A Man and His Parasite" (2013) in SQ Mag, Edition 8 (ed. Sophie Yorkston)
• —— (March 2014). "All the Pretty Little Mermaids". Asimov's Science Fiction. 38 (3): 66–70.
• —— (April 2014). "Bud Webster". In Conversation. Analog. 134 (4): 44–45.

• Official website
• Cat Rambo at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Cat Rambo at Library of Congress, with 6 library catalog records
• Fantasy Magazine Archived 2008-05-13 at the Wayback Machine
• "Worm Within" (short story), Clarkesworld Magazine, September 2008
• "The Surgeon's Tale"" (short story with Jeff VanderMeer), Subterranean Magazine, Winter 2007
• "I'll Gnaw Your Bones, the Manticore Said" (short story), Clarkesworld, July 2007
• "Foam on the Water" (short story), Strange Horizons, February 2007

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