Stacy Gregg

Stacy Gregg (Ngāti Mahuta/Ngāti Pukeko/Ngati Maru Hauraki) has sold over three million books and is the creator of Pony Club Secrets, the series that became Mystic on the CBBC, Stacy is Harpercollins NZ’s 3rd best-selling author of all time behind David Walliams and Dr Seuss. Author of 39 books including three series for middle-grade readers and 8 hardback middle-grade standalones including The Princess and the Foal. Undisputed queen of the pony genre, Stacy now makes the ultimate pivot with Nine Girls. Published by Penguin Random House Nine Girls is a coming-of-age novel set in Stacy’s hometown of Ngāruawāhia. It’s a pakiwaitara handed down to the author about a buried tapu treasure and a talking eel. It’s also a social comment on the tumult of the 1970s and 80s in the time of Bastion Point and the Springbok tour, and an examination of the downstream effect of colonisation and the tragic events at Rangiaowhia during the Tainui Wars.