Claire Mabey is writer, founder of Verb Wellington, LitCrawl Wellington and books editor at The Spinoff. Her first novel, The Raven's Eye Runaways, published by Allen & Unwin, is a middle grade adventure novel about the magic of books, the importance of friendship and the secrets buried deep in families. The sequel, The Raven's Eye Rebellion is out in April 2026. Claire is also a book reviewer on RNZ and on The Bookshelf podcast on the ABC; when she has a spare few minutes she writes a sporadic Substack newsletter called Domestic Animals. Claire is mum to Charlie and lives by the wild South Coast in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Her first picture book, Cass and the Beast, is out in September 2026.