Frances (Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, Stockbridge-Munsee Band of the Mohican Nation, European) is a proud mother of two divine daughters, an arts leader with a penchant for travelling the world, and an emerging creative writer. She lives in Tāmaki Makaurau.

Amy McDaid has a Master of Creative Writing from the University of Auckland. The draft of her first novel Wind Air Sky Guy won the Sir James Wallace Prize in 2017, New Zealand's richest prize for a creative writing student. She lives in Titirangi, an

Kristina Belich, a bloggette, stand-up comic sort of thing from New York City, travels the world, and seeks ultimate truth. As a personal note: I would like to sincerely thank the Michael King Writers' Centre for serving as a place of complete suppor

Originally coming from Ukraine, Nataliya is a Christchurch based academic, actress, street performer and an emerging playwright. With a PhD in Russian studies and particular interest in Soviet ideology, literature and fantasy genre, she is an author

John Downie has been a visiting writer at the Michael King Writers' Centre twice, first in 2013 and again in 2014. In 2014 he worked on a fiction project, a series of inter-linked stories called Mr Brillo. John has had a long professional career as a

Artist, potter, conservationist and railway enthusiast Barry Brickell has been a visiting writer at the Michael King Writers' Centre in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2014. The centre is privileged to have been able to host Barry and provide a place wher

Sarah Stonich is an American writer and editor based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She was a visiting writer at the Michael King Writers' Centre in early 2015, while she visited New Zealand. She has won several awards and fellowships for her work in the

Author Jaspreet Singh was a visiting writer at the Michael King Writers' Centre in March 2015. It was the second time he was resident at the centre, as he also stayed in 2014. He moved from the Michael King Writers' Centre to take up a three-month re

In the summer of 2016, I was staying in an AirBnB in Devonport and a friend drove me to the top of Mount Victoria to see the view. On our way up I noticed a beautiful house on the left and so on the way down we stopped to read the information in the

Dunedin writer Laurence Fearnley was awarded the 2016 NZSA/Auckland Museum Research Grant (taken up in 2017). Laurence's project focuses on landscape and scent and is structured in such a way that each section responds to the traditional development

Joan Norlev Taylor stayed at the centre as the recipient of the NZSA/Auckland Museum Research Grant, (awarded in 2017 and taken up in 2018). During her stay Joan read archives in the Auckland Museum library to help her with her new novel, Between the

Margaret Brosnahan, from Northland, first stayed as a visiting writer for several weeks during the first half of 2015. She returned in 2018 but this is what she wrote about her first visit. I am new to the writing world having started my Level 5 Dipl

Jenny Haworth is well-known as both publisher and writer. She is a regular visitor to the centre and in 2014 was awarded the NZ Society of Authors Museum Fellowship for her work on artists during World War I. She has since returned regularly to resea

Warwick Pudney has been a regular visiting writer, spending time at the centre most years to devote time to his writing. He is senior lecturer at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) in violence and trauma studies and is the leader of its post

Tui was born in Te Awamutu but spent 40 years living in Auckland before returning to live in the Waikato in the year 2000. She grew up in an Auckland sailing family, learned to sail at an early age and sailed the waters of the Hauraki Gulf through he

Michael Woodcock is a New Zealander living in Rural Wairarapa (Carterton) with his wife Gaye, on their small farm nestled close to the Tararua Mountains. Michael commutes daily to Wellington where he works as a trade union organiser. His writing to d

Mary Macpherson is a Wellington poet and photographer. She completed an MA in Creative Writing at Victoria University in 2006 and her work has appeared in many print and online journals including Landfall, Sport, Poetry New Zealand, the Casselburg co

Ivy Alvarez is the author of The Everyday English Dictionary (London: Paekakariki Press, 2016), Hollywood Starlet (Chicago: dancing girl press), Disturbance (Wales: Seren, 2013), and Mortal. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her work appears in ma

Brigid Lowry has an MA in Creative Writing. Auckland-born, she now lives in Western Australia but spends as much time in Aotearoa as she can. Brigid spent her twenties living in a Buddhist community, veered into performance poetry in her thirties, an

Katharine Derrick lives in Kerikeri and writes mainly for children and young adults. She once had a fifty-word story published in Brian Edwards' Book of Incredibly Short Stories but most of her published works are with educational media (Learning Med