Rachael King, was born to a bookish family – her father Michael King was one of New Zealand’s most prominent authors, and her mother Ros Henry is a publisher.
Rachael completed a Masters in Creative Writing from the acclaimed International Institute of Modern Letters at Wellington’s Victoria University in 2001, after which she began work on The Sound of Butterflies, which was published in 2006. In 2007 it won the Montana New Zealand Book Award for Best First Novel.
In 2008 she was the Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence at the University of Canterbury. Magpie Hall was published in New Zealand in November 2009. Her first children’s book Red Rocks has just been published.
Rachael King appears in Read Aloud Schools Programme
and is Chair of An Hour with Emily Perkins
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