Emily Perkins is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, playwright and university lecturer. This year, her latest novel, Lioness, won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Her first collection of short stories, Not Her Real Name and Other Stories, was published in 1996 while she was living in London. Since then, she has written numerous novels and plays, and in 2017 was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature.
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