Bonnie Etherington was born in Nelson, New Zealand, but spent most of her childhood in West Papua and her experiences there inspired her first novel, The Earth Cries Out (Vintage NZ, 2017). This novel was shortlisted for the William Saroyan Prize for International Writing and long-listed for the NZ Book Awards. She was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2016, and has had poetry, short fiction, and travel writing published in literary magazines and anthologies in Australia, New Zealand, the USA, and Malaysia. She was also shortlisted for the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Award in 2013, and named AA Directions’ New Travel Writer of the Year in 2011. Bonnie now lives in Pōneke, where she is a lecturer in literary and creative communication at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington.

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