Elena de Roo is a New Zealand children's writer and poet.
[11][12] In 2018, Elena de Roo completed a Master of Creative Writing at Auckland University of Technology.
[1] Elena de Roo was the recipient of the Todd New Writer’s Bursary in 2010.
[15] In the same year, she won the Manawatū (New Zealand) International Poetry for Performance Competition.
[16] In 2020, she was awarded the University of Otago College of Education Creative New Zealand Children's Writer in Residence Fellowship.