Tina Shaw is the author of 20-odd publications for children, young adults and general readership, including The Black Madonna, written while she held the CNZ Berlin Writers’ Residency, and The Children’s Pond, shortlisted for the 2015 Ngaio Marsh Awards. She has also held the University of Waikato Writer-In-Residence and the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship. She has edited a number of significant collections including the Bateman New Zealand Writer's Handbook (6th and 7th editions). Her YA title About Griffen's Heart was a Storylines Notable Book in 2010. She won the 2018 Storylines Tessa Duder Award with Ursa which was published in 2019 by Walker Books Australia. Shaw is the 2023 winner of the Michael Gifkins Texd Prize. A member of NZAMA, she works as a manuscript assessor, mentor and tutor of creative writing. She is Editor of the NZSA quarterly publication NZ Author.

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