Catherine Chidgey is an award-winning New Zealand writer whose six novels have attracted international acclaim, including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (South East Asia and South Pacific). She has won the Katherine Mansfield Award, the Betty Trask Award, the Janet Frame Fiction Prize and the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize – New Zealand’s most prestigious literary award. She teaches Creative Writing at the University of Waikato. Her new novel, Remote Sympathy, was released in New Zealand in October 2020 and is appearing internationally in April 2021