Mary Shelley Makes a Monster by Octavia Cade

Octavia Cade has been nominated for an Elgin Award and a Stoker Award, and has won three Vogel Awards, for novellas The Ghost of Matter (Paper Road Press) and The Convergence of Fairy Tales (The Book Smugglers), and for her articles on food and horror written for The Book Smugglers. By the time she started at Clarion West, she’d already sold a slew of work to a variety of venues, including Strange Horizons, The Dark, Apex, and Cosmos she’d self-published novel The August Birds and her short story, “The Mussel Eater,” published at The Book Smugglers, had landed a BSFA nomination. But she’d been landing fiction sales long beforehand, starting with “Trading Rosemary” in the July 2010 issue of Bards and Sages Quarterly. and it’s a fantastic place to study.”Ĭade attended Clarion West in 2016 and was the 2020 writer-in-residence at Massey University/Square Edge-the first time the residency has gone to a speculative fiction writer. It’s boring and inaccessible and scientists have no right to whine about people misunderstanding science when they have done everything they can to keep them from it.” Cade studied botany as an undergrad, and “became fascinated with algae and the intertidal zone.” She earned her master’s in biology, looking at reproductive strategies of a native seagrass, and her PhD in science communication at the University of Otago, “the biggest scicomm center in the world . . . “But as much as I love science, scientific writing sucked all my enthusiasm out. New Zealand author Octavia Cade had always planned to be a scientist when she grew up.

Mary Shelley Makes a Monster by Octavia Cade