Catherine Chidgey

Catherine Chidgey is one of New Zealand’s leading writers, the only author to win the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction twice, for The Wish Child and The Axeman's Carnival. Her novels, including In a Fishbone Church, Golden Deeds, and Remote Sympathy, have received international acclaim and multiple awards. She lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Waikato, and her latest novel is The Book of Guilt.