Biography
Cato was born Beth Louise Davis on January 13, 1980 inLiterary career
Cato's first published fiction appeared online at Ligonier Valley Writers (lvwonline.org) in 2009. Her fiction has appeared in various periodicals, podcasts and anthologies, including ''A is for Apocalypse'', ''At Year's End: Holiday SFF Stories'', ''B is for Broken'', ''Recognition
Cato's fiction and poetry has been nominated for a number of literary awards, and in one instance won. ''The Clockwork Dagger'' placed fifth in the 2015 Locus Poll Award for Best First Novel. ''Wings of Sorrow and Bone'' was nominated for the 2016Bibliography
The Clockwork Dagger series
* ''The Deepest Poison'' (novelette ) (2015) * ''The Clockwork Dagger'' (2014) * ''The Clockwork Crown'' (2015) * ''Wings of Sorrow and Bone'' (novella) (2015) * ''Final Flight'' (novelette ) (2016) * ''Deep Roots'' (collection) (2016)Blood of Earth series
# ''Breath of Earth'' (2016) # ''Call of Fire'' (2017) # ''Roar of Sky'' (2018)Collections
* '' Red Dust and Dancing Horses: and Other Stories'' (2017)Short fiction
* "Brains for Breakfast" (2009) * "Promise in the Dust" (2009) * "Biding Time" (2009) * "Bless This House" (2010) * "A Recipe for Rain and Rainbows" (2010) * "Reading Time" (2011) * "A Dance to End Our Final Day" (2011) * "La Rosa Still in Bloom" (2011) * "A Spectacular Display" (2011) * "Red Dust and Dancing Horses" (2012) * "213 Myrtle Street" (2012) * "Cartographer's Ink" (2012) * "Blue Tag Sale" (2012) * "Toilet Gnomes at War" (2012) * "Overlap" (2012) * "A Unicorn for Christmas" (2012) * "An Echo in the Shell" (2013) * "Maps" (2013) * "American Shadow" (2013) * "Homecoming" (2013) * "Canopy of Skulls" (2013) * "A Lonesome Speck of Home" (2013) * "Clementine, Who Swims with Mermaids" (2013) * "For Want of Stars" (2013) * "The Sweetness of Bitter" (2013) * "Hat Trick" (2013) * "Stitched Wings" (2013) * "The Cartography of Shattered Trees" (2014) * "Measures and Countermeasures" (2014) * "D" (2014) * "Post-Apocalyptic Conversations with a Sidewalk" (2014) * "Hatchlings" (2014) * "A Mother's Touch" (2014) * "My Brother's Keeper" (2015) * "From the Ashes" (2015) * "Bread of Life" (2015) * "Roots, Shallow and Deep" (2015) * "K" (2015) * "Headspace" (2015) * "The Quest You Have Chosen Defies Your Fate" (2015) * "Beat Softly, My Wings of Steel" (2016) * "The Human Is Late to Feed the Cat" (2016) * "The Souls of Horses" (2016) * "S" (2016) * "Bear-bear Speaks" (2016) * "Minor Hockey Gods of Barstow Station" (2016) * "Moon Skin" (2016) * "10 Things Newly Manifested Wizards Should Never Do" (2016) * "Left Hand Awakens" (2017) * "P" (2017) * "With Cardamom I'll Bind Their Lips" (2017) * "A Fine Night for Tea and Bludgeoning" (2017) lso as by Beth L. Cato* "Excerpts from the 100-Day Food Diary of Angela Meyer" (2017) * "So You Have Been Claimed by a Magical Cat" (2017) * "Powers of Observation" (2017) * "The Library Is Open" (2018) * "R" (2018) * "To This You Cling, with Jagged Fingernails" (2018) * "The 133rd Live Podcast of the Gourmando Resistance" (2018) * "Rootless" (2018) * "The Blighted Godling of Company Town H" (2019) * "The Peculiar Gravity of Home" (2019) * "A Picture Is Worth" (2019) * "Consider the Monsters" (2019) * "Z" (2019) * "Clouds Gleam Across Her Eyes" (2019) * "The Wind Knows All" (2019) * "Sometimes You End Up Where You Are" (2019) * "A Royal Saber's Work is Never Done" (2020) * "Perilous Blooms" (2020) * "A Different Heaven" (2020) * "Apocalypse Playlist" (2020) * "A Consideration of Trees" (2020) * "A Future of Towers Made" (2021) * "What Friends Are For" (2021) * "Shared Pain" (2021) * "Your Cat" (2021) * "Welcome Home" (2021) * "The Recipe Keeper" (2022) * "More Than Nine" (2022) * "How to Hide a Unicorn" (2022) * "The Right Cornbread" (2022) * "To Meet the Death Carriage" (2022) * "How to Creatively Host Cheese Parties During and After the Apocalypse" (2022) * "The 207th Time I Went Back to March 9, 1980" (2022) * "A Light in the Garden" (2022) * "Family Get-Together" (2022)Verse
* "Alone" (with Arnold Emmanuel, Jennie Glenn, Karl Louderback, Rhonda Parrish, Pete Pfau, Clare Revell and Ray Smith) (2010) * "Ever Do They Hunger" (2011) * "Hearts" (2011) * "In Buckeye" (2011) * "Six Months After" (2012) * "A Hairy Issue" (2013) * "Mice" (2013) * "The Truth about Unicorns" (2013) * "What Remains" (2013) * "Cat Lady" (2013) * "The Truth About Fairies" (2013) * "Four Addenda to Home Owner Association Rules" (2013) * "Regarding Portable Unicorns" (2013) * "What We Carry" (2013) * "Worst Enemy" (2013) * "Hunter" (2013) * "Mad Scientist's Lament" (2014) * "Rest Day, in Transit to Centauri Prime" (2014) * "Seeds" (2014) * "Time Traveler's Woe" (2014) * "Cloud Catcher" (2014) * "Bird Girl" (2014) * "Authentic Mother Version 2.6" (2014) * "Barstow" (2014) * "Cogs" (2014) * "Nisei" (2014) * "Unanimous" (2014) * "Quercus California" (2014) * "Advice on Befriending a Siren" (2014) * "Mama Bogey's Advice for Her Young's First Closet" (2014) * "The Time Traveler's Buttonhook" (2014) * "The Time Traveler's Gratitude" (2014) * "The Time Traveler's Pants" (2014) * "Suddenly, a Unicorn" (2014) * "Dragon to Centauri" (2014) * "To Walk Upon Clouds" (2014) * "From Grandma, With Love" (2014) * "Thank Hecate for Insurance" (2014) * "Time Traveler's Seance" (2014) * "How a Modern Green Man Grows" (2014) * "Loophole" (2015) * "Squished Things" (2015) * "The Border Cowboy in Fairyland" (2015) * "The Border Cowboy's Smile" (2015) * "The Time Traveler's Diagnosis" (2015) * "Mama Gonna Fight" (2015) * "After" (2015) * "The Selkie Visits the Beach" (2015) * "Genetic" (2015) * "The Border Cowboy's Horse" (2015) * "The Time Traveler's Illness" (2015) * "The Migration of Winged Jukeboxes" (2015) * "What Happened Among the Stars" (2015) * "The Time Traveler Revisits Childhood" (2015) * "Fried Okra" (2015) * "Obsidian" (2015) * "The City" (2015) * "Why You Will Listen and Drown" (2015) * "Hera Herself, at 8'clock Tonight" (2015) * "Riders of the Apocalypse: Death" (2015) * "A Warning, Flashing in Red Overlaid on Your Visor" (2016) * "The Box of Dust and Monsters" (2016) * "Apology Letter from the Aliens" (2016) * "No more Broomsticks for Me" (2016) * "To Ride the Puca" (2016) * "Window View" (2016) * "Dragon, Bound in Stone" (2016) * "View from Above" (2016) * "Deeper Than Pie" (2016) * "A Sip of Starlight" (2016) * "Footprints" (2016) * "Shopping Spree" (2016) * "Keep This Mystery" (2016) * "The Mermaid, on Display in Phoenix" (2016) * "The Death of the Horse" (2016) * "Horse and Girl" (2016) * "Lamp Beside the Golden Door" (2016) * "Morning During Migration Season" (2016) * "At the Very Least" (2016) * "A Net to Snare a Unicorn" (2017) * "Being Human" (2017) * "Preventative Measures" (2017) * "The Flesh is Weak" (2017) * "Final Portion of Elixir Recipe" (2017) * "No Upgrade Required" (2017) * "Note on the Teachers' Lounge Fridge at the Witches' Academy" (2017) * "When Stones Awaken" (2017) * "A Net to Snare Pegasus" (2017) * "Homes" (2017) * "The Astronaut's Cat" (2017) * "Wayfaring King" (2017) * "Call Me Home Again, Child" (2017) * "The Stars Sing" (2018) * "After Her Brother Ripped the Heads from Her Paper Dolls" (2018) * "This Body Made" (2018) * "The Fairies in the Crawlspace" (2018) * "So Old" (2018) * "The Border Cowboy at the Border" (2018) * "'a GoFundMe account'" (2018) * "Gone" (2018) * "Maybe Tomorrow" (2018) * "Prehistoric Provisions" (2018) * "smile" (2018) * "What You Hear When Your Best Friend Falls for a Supervillain" (2019) * "Childhood Memory from the Old Victorian House on Warner" (2019) * "Consequences of a Stolen Star" (2019) * "My Ghost Will Know the Way" (2019) * "Stranger Danger" (2019) * "Old Coyote" (2019) * "Tree in Drought" (2019) * "Moon Catcher" (2019) * "Mrs. Housekeeper" (2020) * "Other Worlds to Save" (2020) * "he scores" (with Rhonda Parrish) (2020) * "The Girl Who Survived" (2020) * "I Make Myself a Dragon" (2020) * "Great-Great Grandmother's Recipe" (2020) * "Going Home" (2020) * "The Luck Eaters" (with Rhonda Parrish) (2020) * "When the Company Pays" (2020) * "The Way Is Long and Fraught with Perils" (2020) * "A Spider's Love" (2020) * "Don't Panic" (2020) * "Maiden Voyage of the Penelope" (2020) * "My Cat, He" (2020) * "At the End" (2020) * "Least Weird Thing of All" (2020) * "Space Isn't Like the Vids" (2020) * "Express Your Feelings" (2020) * "Dollies" (2021) * "mansplainer" (2021) * "Outcomes of Her Time Travel Efforts to Save Her Husband" (2021) * "Under Tables" (2021) * "How to Find Yourself Again" (2021) * "Out of All the Experiences" (2021) * "Demons" (2021) * "Follow the Meandering Path" (2021) * "The Eye of the Kraken" (2021) * "But You Mustn't Look Back" (with Rhonda Parrish) (2021) * "Field Trip to See the Mermaid" (2021) * "Shapeshifting Isn't Some Party Trick" (2021) * "The Bookstore" (2021) * "Let's Enjoy the Stars One Last Time" (2022) * "Today"(2022) * "Forget That" (2022) * "Timeless Pie" (2022) * "The Ship Is Wrong" (2022) * "Doing Her Part to Combat Sexism in the Sciences" (2022) * "In Spring, We Thanked the Wee Folk" (2022) * "Mother, Grandmother, God" (2022) * "Only Times" (2022) * "When, as an Adult, You Choose to Again Believe in Magic" (2022) * "Better Off" (2022) * "That Monster Beneath the Bed" (2022) * "Following the White Horse" (2022) * "Birthday Cake" (with Rhonda Parrish) (2023) * "The Nothings" (with Rhonda Parrish) (2023) * "The Lying Moon" (2023)References
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