Una Cruickshank

Una Cruickshank has an MA in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, and another earlier MA that she doesn’t talk about as much. She was born in Tamaki Mākaurau Auckland and now lives in Pōneke Wellington. She works at an audiovisual archive and haunts the city’s cinemas and libraries, and that one karaoke place that smells like boiled meat. Una was announced as one of the 2025 New Voices of Aotearoa by the Coalition of Books. The Chthonic Cycle (Te Herenga Waka Press, 2024) is her first book and won the E.H. McCormick Prize for General Non-Fiction at the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

Find Una’s book at UBS – University Bookshop Canterbury.

Image: Ebony Lamb