Fiona’s first novel, The Skinny Louie Book won the 1993 New Zealand Book Award. Other novels have been shortlisted for the Montana NZ Book Award and nominated for the International Dublin IMPAC Award. Her poems have been widely anthologised and her short fiction has appeared alongside Alice Munro and Hanif Kureishi’s work in Heinemann’s Best Short Stories. She has held residencies in France and Ireland and in 2007 she received the Prime Minister’s Award for Fiction. She is this year’s Burns Fellow at the University of Otago.

Website: Fionafarrell.com