Paula Morris (Ngāti Wai) is the author of four novels, and the editor of The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories (2009). Her short story collection, Forbidden Cities (Penguin, 2008) was a regional finalist in the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she teaches creative writing at Tulane University, New Orleans.

See also: New Zealand Book Council page

Books

The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories, edited by acclaimed novelist Paula Morris, provides a fascinating snapshot of New Zealand fiction in the early twenty-first century. The 31-story collection includes significant work from our foremost fiction writers - including C. K. Stead, Patricia Grace, Fiona Kidman, Witi Ihimaera, Damien Wilkins, Owen Marshall, Vincent O'Sullivan, Fiona Farrell and Emily Perkins - alongside exciting work by a strong group of new, younger rising literary stars, such as Eleanor Catton, Carl Nixon, Julian Novitz and Alice Tawhai. The stories come from a variety of previously published sources, with a handful published here for the very first time.

Ruined
'A stunning debut novel . . . a masterful work' (The New Zealand Herald), Paula Morris' first young adult novel combines voodoo, ghosts, the mystique of New Orleans, and a stormy romance to make a gripping supernatural thriller