Cathie Dunsford is the director of Dunsford Publishing Consultants which assesses, edits and sells feminist and general texts from the Pacific to the publishing industry globally. 

She taught literature at Auckland University for seven years; was Fulbright Post-Doctoral Research Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley for three years; has directed the NZ Writers’ Conferences; and read and lectured in Europe, UK and USA. She currently teaches Creative Writing and Publishing at Auckland University. 

She regularly attends international book fairs. She has edited four collections of NZ literature and her own writing appears in anthologies published in New Zealand, Australia, USA, Germany and the UK. She has been on the editorial board of the Lesbian Review of Books (USA) since its inception.

Her novels include Cowrie (1994), The Journey Home (1997), Manawa Toa: Heart Warrior (2000), Song of the Selkies (2001) and Ao Toa: Earth Warrior (2004). She is also co-editor of Car Maintenance, Explosives and Love and other Lesbian Writings (1997). Her books have been translated into German and Turkish.