Wanda McKenzie Cowley

Wanda McKenzie Cowley has been writing since she was seven. Her first poems and stories were published in the New Zealand Herald and Auckland Star's children's pages while she was attending Auckland Girls' Grammar School. Her poems, stories and photo articles for children began in the mid 1970s in the School Journals. Many other stories were included in anthologies and broadcast on National Radio. Her first novel for children, “Biddy Alone”, was published in 1988 and its sequel, “Biddy and the Night Birds”, in 1994. A novel for young adults, “Trespassers”, was published in 1991 and the German translation, “Auf eigene Gefahr”, followed in 1992.Her first adult historical novel, “Scrimshaw Secret”, was self-published in 2007. The print run sold out and has since been reprinted. This novel reflects the diasporas of Scots who travelled from Wester Ross in Scotland via Nova Scotia to New Zealand