Noelle McCarthy is an author, broadcaster and producer. Her memoir, Grand: Becoming my mother’s daughter, won best first book of non-fiction at the New Zealand Book Awards in 2023. She was the 2023 Writer in Residence at Victoria University's International Institute of Modern Letters.

She grew up in Ireland and started her radio career at 95bFM in Auckland in the early 2000’s before going on to work at Radio New Zealand for more than a decade.

She makes long-form narrative podcasts now, as Bird of Paradise Productions alongside her husband John Daniell.

Noelle lives in Featherston with John and their daughter and many copies of ‘Dracula.’