John Cranna

He received a BA Honours in Politics and Sociology from Victoria University of Wellington, then moved to the United Kingdom where he lived in Kings Cross, London during the 1980s.

Kings Cross was a red light and crime district at the time, and he worked in urban development and renewal for nine years in this impoverished inner city area while completing his first book of short stories.

His works of fiction are published in Australia by Heinemann Reed, in the UK by Minerva Books, and in France by Éditions Phébus.

Cranna was editor of AA Directions, from 2000 to 2005, which at the time, was New Zealand's largest circulation magazine.

[1] He was screenwriter for the short Accidents (2000),[2] directed by Paul Swadel, which was shown at the 56th Venice International Film Festival.