Hazel Phillips
Hazel Phillips is the author of five non-fiction books, including Great Hearts: First Ladies of Aoraki Mount Cook; Fire & Ice: Secrets, Histories, Treasures and Mysteries of Tongariro National Park; and Solo: Backcountry Adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand.
She has a background in newspaper and magazine journalism, and her work has appeared in media outlets and literary journals across New Zealand and Australia, including the 2024 essay anthology Otherhood.
Hazel was awarded the Friends of the Hocken Collections Award 2026 and a Ministry for Culture & Heritage Whiria Te Mahara New Zealand History Grant for her research on early women climbers. She has held writer residencies at the Michael King Writers Centre and the Robert Lord Writers Cottage, and in 2025 became the inaugural recipient of the Luna Foundation Writers Residency.
In 2026 she was awarded the Varuna / Michael King Writers Centre international fellowship.
Hazel holds a Master of Creative Writing with first-class honours, as well as an MA in media studies.
Find Hazel's books at UBS - the University Bookshop.
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