Catherine Cole is a fiction and non-fiction writer and an academic in Literary Studies and Creative Writing.

Her fictional works include the crime novels Dry Dock and Skin Deep and the fictional memoir about the French in colonial Hanoi, Vietnam, The Grave at Thu Le. She has also published short stories and poetry, and has edited the anthologies, Fashion in Fiction: Clothing in Text, Film and Television and The Perfume River: Writing from Vietnam.

Catherine divides her time between her home in south-west France and teaching at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia.

Cynthia Young most recently organized the exhibition The Mexican Suitcase: The Rediscovered Spanish Civil War Negatives of Capa, Chim, and Taro, along with its award-winning catalogue.