Cody Caetano was born in Toronto. His mother’s family is from the Manitoba Interlake, and his father’s family emigrated to Canada from the Azores in the 1960s. Caetano remains in Toronto today as a writer and literary agent at CookeMcDermid Literary Management.
Caetano’s debut memoir, (Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Random House Canada), was and . Excerpts from the book received the 2020 Indigenous Voices Award for Best Unpublished Prose.