Catherine Cole is a fiction and non-fiction writer and an academic in Literary and Cultural Studies 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, her short story collection, Seabirds Crying in the Harbour Dark and the novel Sleep.
Catherine divides her time between her home in south-west France and teaching at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia.
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Sleep, UWA Publishing, 2019
Seabirds Crying in the Harbour Dark, UWA Publishing, 2017
Dry Dock, Harper Collins 1999 and Duffy and Snellgrove, 2002 
Skin Deep, Duffy and Snellgrove, 2002
The Grave at Thu Le, Picador, 2006 
A French House, 2026
Slipstream: On Memory and Migration, Valley Press, 2023
Private Dicks and Feisty Chicks: An Interrogation of Crime Fiction, Curtin University Press, 1996
The Poet Who Forgot, UWA Press, 2008
The Perfume River: Writing from Vietnam, UWA Press, 2010
Fashion in Fiction: Text and Clothing in Literature, Film and Television, Berg UK and USA, May 2009 ed with McNeil, and Karaminas