Tina Shaw is a fiction writer (novels and short stories), book reviewer, editor, manuscript assessor and tutor of creative writing. While many of her novels are aimed at adults, she has also written fiction for children and has edited a number of significant collections of New Zealand writing. Her stories have appeared in magazines and teenage anthologies, and have been broadcast on radio. Tina has received many awards including theBuddle Finlay Sargeson Fellowship in 1999, the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers Residency in 2001 and Writer in Residence at the University of Waikato in 2005. Her website is www.tinashaw.co.nz