Nancy Cato was born in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1917. She was educated at Adelaide University.

A poet and fiction writer, she edited some anthologies, and served for a while as an advisory editor to Poetry (Australia), and Overland. She has also been a journalist, a grape-picker, and art critic, and has travelled extensively in Europe, Asia and Australia.

She died in Noosa , Queensland in 2000.

Bibliography

• Jindyworobak Anthology (1950)
• The Darkened Window (1950)
• The Dancing Bough (1957)
• All The Rivers Run (1958)
• Time, Flow Softly (1959)
• Green Grows the Vine (1960)
• But Still The Stream (1962)
• The Sea Ants: and Other Stories (1964)
• North-West by South (1965)
• Brown Sugar (1974)
• Queen Trucanini (1976)
• Nin and the Scribblies (1976)
• Mister Maloga : Daniel Matthews and his Mission, Murray River, 1864-1902 (1976)
• The Noosa Story: A Study In Unplanned Development (1979)
• Forefathers (1983)
• The Lady Lost in Time (1986)
• A Distant Island (1988)
• The Heart of the Continent (1989)
• Marigold (1992)

External Links

• Nancy Cato at the OldPoetry Archive.