Alexa Johnston is an author, art curator, and historian from New Zealand.
[1] Johnston worked for nineteen years as a curator at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
[4] Johnston collaborated with David Larsen to write Reaching the Summit, biography of Edmund Hillary for young adults.
[5] Johnston has published a number of books celebrating New Zealand's culinary history including Ladies, a Plate (2008), A Second Helping (2009), What's For Pudding?
[7] It also won the Publishers' Association of New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book and was Recipe Book of the Year in the New Zealand Guild of Food Writers Culinary Quill Awards.