Barbara Sumner is the author of Tree of Strangers (in reprint). Her first historical fiction, The Gallows Bird will be released by Pantera Press (Sydney) in April 2024. She has an MA in creative writing (with Distinction) from Modern Letters at Victoria University and is currently completing her PhD at Modern Letters. She has worked in film and journalism and manages Cloud South Pictures with her husband, Tom Burstyn. In 2009 This Way of Life, their feature documentary about a family living simply in the Ruahine Ranges, won the Berlinale Generation Jury Prize at the Berlin Film Festival, was shortlisted for an Oscar, and won awards at film festivals around the world. She lives in Napier. https://www.barbarasumner.nz/

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