Sue Orr (writer)

Sue Orr (born 1962) is a fiction writer, journalist and creative writing teacher from New Zealand.

[1] She currently lives in Wellington, and teaches creative writing at Rimutaka and Arohata prisons, and in women's refuges in the region.

[1][2] Orr has worked as a journalist in New Zealand (in Tokoroa, Tauranga, Wellington), the UK, and France.

[1][3] Orr has published four works of fiction: Loop Tracks was inspired by a friend who used Sisters Overseas Service in the late 1970s to obtain an abortion.

[4][5] Set in Wellington, it covers many issues: abortion, adoption, euthanasia, family relationships and the Covid 19 lockdown.