[1] She has won numerous awards for her writing and also works as an editor, mentor, teacher of creative writing programmes and public speaker at festivals and in schools.

Anna Mackenzie was born in Palmerston North, New Zealand on 22 April 1963.

[4] Later she worked in publishing and spent some time overseas in a variety of jobs ranging from nannying in London to hiring out fishing boats on the West Coast of Scotland.

[5] She has served as Vice-President of the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) and Central Districts Regional Delegate.

[1] In 2013 she was awarded a writing residency in Belgium by Belgian arts organisation Passa Porta,[5] and in 2014 she spoke at ‘This Way Up’,[13] the Australia and New Zealand Festival of Literature and Arts in London.