Judith White
Judith was born in Wellington and went to school in Hastings. She now lives in Auckland, New Zealand.
She was the secretary of the Auckland Branch of the New Zealand Society of Authors for several years in the 1980s. She has taught creative writing courses for over two decades, and has worked as a one-on-one mentor for the AUT Creative Writing Masters (MCW) programme, and for the NZSA mentorship scheme.
Judith is the author of two novels The Elusive Language of Ducks (Penguin Random House, 2013) and Across the Dreaming Night (Penguin Random House, 1999; Oneworld Publications UK 2014; China Times Publishing Company, 2015). She has also published a short story collection Visiting Ghosts (Hodder and Stoughton, 1991; Timeless Tangerine, 1991).
She won the 1988 BNZ Katherine Mansfield Centenary Award and has twice won the Auckland Star short story competition (1987 and 1990) as well as placing third in 2009. Judith was awarded the Frank Sargeson Fellowship in 1995. She has been shortlisted for the NZ Book Awards.
