Mona Innis Tracy (née Mackay; 24 January 1892 – 22 February 1959) was a New Zealand children's novelist, journalist, poet, short-story writer, and community worker.

[1] Tracy was born in Kensington, Adelaide in 1892, to Catherine Julia Bilston, an Australian-born writer and journalist (later known by her penname Katrine), and her husband John Williams Mackay, a New Zealand farmer and auctioneer.

[5] Her first children's novel, Rifle and Tomahawk (1927), was set at the time of Te Kooti's War, and featured both Pākehā and Māori teenage protagonists.

[8][9] She continued to write articles for various publications including the Auckland Sun and the Australian magazine Aussie, in which she contributed to a column called "The Voice of the Enzed Woman" and discussed women's political issues.

[1] After the war, Tracy and her family moved to the small town of Governors Bay, where she served as the president of the local branch of the Women's Division of the Federated Farmers of New Zealand in 1949–50.