Cody Caetano is a Canadian writer from Toronto, Ontario,^[1] whose debut memoir Half-Bads in White Regalia was the winner of the Indigenous Voices Award for English prose in 2023.^[2]

Caetano, of mixed Portuguese and Anishinaabe descent, studied creative writing at the University of Toronto, where he wrote the book under the mentorship of Lee Maracle.^[3] The book is a memoir of his tumultuous childhood as the son of a Portuguese immigrant father and an indigenous mother from the Pinaymootang First Nation who was a survivor of the Sixties Scoop, after they moved to the hamlet of Happyland in Severn, Ontario, near Orillia.^[3]

Prior to its publication, excerpts from the manuscript won the Indigenous Voices Award for unpublished English prose in 2020.^[4] The book was published in 2022 by Penguin Random House Canada.^[3] It was named as one of the best Canadian non-fiction books of the year by CBC Books,^[5] and The Globe and Mail,^[6] was named to the initial longlist for the 2023 edition of Canada Reads^[7] and the 2023 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour,^[8] and was a finalist for the 2023 Edna Staebler Award.^[9]

In 2023 he served as writer-in-residence for the Whistler Writers Festival.^[10]