Stephanie Johnson
Stephanie has taught creative writing at Waikato University, University of Auckland, AUT and Unitec. She has taught a range of summer schools and evening classes and is widely praised as one of NZ's contemporary writers. The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature describes Johnson's writing as 'marked by a dry irony, a sharp-edged humour that focuses unerringly on the frailties and foolishness of her characters....There is compassion, though, and sensitivity in the development of complex situations', and goes on to note that 'a purposeful sense of...larger concerns balances Johnson's precision with the small details of situation, character and voice that give veracity and colour'.
