Paula Morris is an award-winning fiction writer and essayist of Māori and English descent, from New Zealand. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she teaches creative writing at the University of Auckland, and at schools and in community programmes around the world. Paula is the founder of the Academy of New Zealand Literature (www.anzliterature.com), and sits on the Māori Literature Trust. She has appeared at festivals in North America, Europe, China, India, South Africa, the U.K. and New Zealand. She has also held numerous international residencies, including Bellagio in Italy, and was the 2019 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellow in France.