ABOUT FIONA

I grew up in Northland, and began a library career in Rotorua after I left school.

Books have always played a central role in my life. I learned to read one afternoon in hospital when I was six and, not being aware that there was anything else to read, read all the adult books in the hospital library over the weeks that followed. This didn't make me especially clever, but it did make me aware of the powerful role of stories, and I have been telling them ever since.

I have worked in the media as a journalist, radio producer, and as a radio, film and television script writer, but now work wholly as a writer and occasional teacher of writing.

I am President of Honour of the NZ Book Council

2008/09 President of Honour for NZ Society of Authors (PEN International Inc)

Patron of the following organizations:
NZ Refugee and Migrant Family Reunification Trust
NZ Poetry Society

Board member of the following organizations:
Randell Cottage Writers Trust
New Zealand Book Month

Committee Member of the following organization:
Friends of the Randell Cottage