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E. Catherine Tobler

A white woman with windblown short gray hair smiles at the camera, eyes obscured by sunglasses. She's wearing a lei and a Hawaiian shirt.

E. Catherine Tobler’s short fiction and poetry has appeared in Clarkesworld, F&SF, Bourbon Penn, Gamut, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, Nightmare, and others. Her photography has appeared in The New Yorker. Her editing and writing work has been a finalist for the Nebula, Utopia, Sturgeon (twice), Hugo (three times), Ditmar, Aurealis, Locus, and World Fantasy (three times) awards. She currently edits The Deadlands, which is a Hugo finalist for Best Semiprozine in 2026.

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