Our Members
Members of the ANZL are active practitioners: they are accomplished writers of poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction for adults. Some write in all three genres; some have additional publications – in history, say, or children’s literature – and some have also written for the screen or stage. But the writers here have been invited to join the ANZL because they’ve published at least two full-length books in one of our core genres, the most recent book within the last ten years.
To locate a Member’s bio page, you can search by genre, by letter of the alphabet, or by surname. You’ll also find links to bio pages in our features, in which many of our writers are interviewed or cited.
Search for our members by genre
Click on the relevant box for a listing of writers in each genre. Note: some writers will appear in two or more.
- 60of our members
write Creative Nonfiction - 115of our members
write Fiction - 88of our members
write Poetry
Search for our members by name
Click on a letter for a list, or scroll through the master list below to find the writer you’re looking for.
- Pip Adam
- Fleur Adcock
- Rosetta Allan
- Maxine Alterio
- Tusiata Avia
- Hinemoana Baker
- Serie Barford
- Tony Beyer
- Peter Bland
- Jenny Bornholdt
- Steve Braunias
- Diana Bridge
- Amy Brown
- Diane Brown
- Linda Burgess
- Kate Camp
- Eleanor Catton
- Geoff Chapple
- Catherine Chidgey
- Paul Cleave
- Craig Cliff
- Geoff Cochrane
- Gina Cole
- Glenn Colquhoun
- Thom Conroy
- Tim Corballis
- Wystan Curnow
- Stephen Daisley
- Debra Daley
- Marilyn Duckworth
- Alan Duff
- Kate Duignan
- Lynley Edmeades
- David Eggleton
- Barbara Else
- Chris Else
- Johanna Emeney
- Paul Ewen
- Barbara Ewing
- Fiona Farrell
- Cliff Fell
- Janis Freegard
- Anne French
- Maurice Gee
- James George
- Brannavan Gnanalingam
- Patricia Grace
- Paula Green
- Charlotte Grimshaw
- Bernadette Hall
- Michael Harlow
- Siobhan Harvey
- Mohamed Hassan
- Dinah Hawken
- Karyn Hay
- Helen Heath
- Dominic Hoey
- Jeffrey Paparoa Holman
- David Howard
- Witi Ihimaera
- Kevin Ireland
- Anna Jackson
- Lynn Jenner
- Stephanie Johnson
- Lloyd Jones
- Gregory Kan
- Anne Kennedy
- Fiona Kidman
- Rachael King
- Elizabeth Knox
- Saradha Koirala
- Sarah Laing
- Chloe Lane
- Graeme Lay
- Michele Leggott
- Louise Wareham Leonard
- Anna Livesey
- Therese Lloyd
- Tina Makereti
- Bill Manhire
- Selina Tusitala Marsh
- Owen Marshall
- Mary McCallum
- Anthony McCarten
- Kirsten McDougall
- Greg McGee
- Frankie McMillan
- Cilla McQueen
- Courtney Sina Meredith
- Karlo Mila
- Tanya Moir
- Stephanie de Montalk
- Kelly Ana Morey
- Paula Morris
- Michael Morrissey
- Emma Neale
- Carl Nixon
- James Norcliffe
- Julian Novitz
- Vincent O’Sullivan
- Gregory O’Brien
- Linda Olsson
- Sue Orr
- Jenny Pattrick
- Nicky Pellegrino
- Emily Perkins
- Vivienne Plumb
- J.P. Pomare
- Nina Mingya Powles
- Chris Price
- Sarah Quigley
- Maggie Rainey-Smith
- Charlotte Randall
- Richard Reeve
- Paddy Richardson
- Helen Rickerby
- Harry Ricketts
- Catherine Robertson
- Ben Sanders
- Elspeth Sandys
- Duncan Sarkies
- Kerrin P Sharpe
- Tina Shaw
- Carl Shuker
- Tracey Slaughter
- Anna Smaill
- Elizabeth Smither
- C. K. Stead
- Robert Sullivan
- Jillian Sullivan
- Vanda Symon
- Alice Tawhai
- Chad Taylor
- Apirana Taylor
- Renēe Taylor
- Philip Temple
- Paul Thomas
- Tayi Tibble
- Steven Toussaint
- Chris Tse
- Brian Turner
- Tim Upperton
- Bridget van der Zijpp
- David Vann
- Bryan Walpert
- Ian Wedde
- Albert Wendt
- Pat White
- Judith White
- Tim Wilson
- Alison Wong
- Briar Wood
- Sue Wootton
- Bianca Zander
'...poetry makes intimate everything that it touches.' - Michael Harlow