Rachael King

Rachael King is a writer for children and adults, a book reviewer and a former festival programme director. Her fourth novel The Grimmelings was published in February 2024 and is a finalist in this year’s New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, while her earlier middle grade novel, Red Rocks, is now in production for television. Rachael was named Reviewer of the Year at the 2023 Voyager New Zealand Media Awards. She moved to Ōtautahi in 2008 to take up a one-year position as the Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence at the University of Canterbury and she never left.