Katherine Oktober Matthews is an artist, author, editor and independent publisher. Her self-published book I Love Animals (2017) was shortlisted for the Arles Photobook Award and selected for the Athens Photo Festival book exhibition. Her book Elsewhere, a personal essay in words and photographs, is forthcoming (Leaping Man, 2025).

In addition to her own creative practice, she is an authority in the international photography art world as an editor, journalist, and critic, most notably in her former role as Chief Editor of GUP Magazine. She is the author of Unique: Making Photographs in the Age of Ubiquity (2018), and is a freelance mentor and consultant to working artists and creative entrepreneurs. In 2017, she founded Riding the Dragon, an online platform dedicated to consolations on the challenge of creation, and in 2018, she launched House of Oktober, an independent arts publishing house, and Useful., an online platform of activities to explore meaning and fulfillment in the new world of automation and post-work.