AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND

Stephanie Johnson was a co-founder of the Auckland Writers Festival in 1998. She has published across multiple genres, from collections of poetry, to plays, short stories and novels and is a recipient of the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction and a MNZM for services to literature. Her novel Everything Changes won the 2021 New Zealand Society of Authors Heritage Prize for Fiction and her most recent is Kind.

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