Sacha Cotter is an award-winning children’s writer based in Wellington, Aotearoa. 

She is best known for the 2019 Margaret Mahy Book of the Year The Bomb, and Dazzlehands which has been adapted into a children’s ballet by the Royal New Zealand Ballet.

Other picture books written by Sacha include: Keys (Ngā Kī), The Marble Maker (Te Kaihanga Māpere), and most recently A Guide to Rocks (He Taonga Te Toka) – all published by HUIA Publishers, translated by Kawata Teepa, and illustrated by her partner in both books and life, Josh Morgan. 

Sacha is involved in writing and creating children’s television. She has written for The Kiddets, The Book Hungry Bears and helped create and develop Extreme Cake Sports for HEIHEI TVNZ.

Sacha’s children’s poetry has been published in Roar, Squeak, Purr - A New Zealand Treasury of Animal Poems, published by Penguin Random House.

Sacha grew up in the Eastern Bay of Plenty.