Catherine S. McMullen is a writer and film & TV professional, currently living in Melbourne. Her fiction work has been published in Nightmare Magazine, Aurealis Magazine, Interzone, Dark Tales, and others, and her non-fiction work includes articles for Non-Fiction Gaming and Reading for Australia. Her work has been reprinted in anthologies such as Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror and Focus 2013: Highlights of Australian Short Fiction. She was the youngest person to ever to sell a story to a professional science-fiction magazine, selling to Interzone at age 10. Recently, her short story ‘The Nest’ was nominated for an Australian Shadows Award from the Australian Horror Writers’ Association, and her short story ‘Monday-child’ was voted by Aurealis subscribers as ‘Best Story of 2013’. Catherine currently works full-time in film & TV industry, and has worked in various roles in both drama and reality. In 2015, her pilot ‘Living Metal’ was shortlisted for an AWGIE Award, Australia's top screenwriting award, for 'Best Unproduced Screenplay', as well as being shortlisted as a finalist in the AWGs ‘What Happens Next’ screenwriting competition. Her credits include upcoming Syfy series 'Childhood’s End', AACTA-award winning series 'Nowhere Boys', unscripted shows 'Real Housewives of Melbourne' and 'Formal Wars', and feature films 'Cut Snake' and 'Paper Planes'. She also works as a note-taker and researcher for TV writers’ rooms, and writes analysis and coverage for both scripts and prose.