Lawrence Patchett

Author photo: Janneth Gil

Lawrence Patchett is a Pākehā writer from Ōtautahi Christchurch. His books include I Got His Blood on Me: Frontier Tales, which won the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction, the novel The Burning River, and the short story collection Have This Heart. His writing has appeared in Landfall, Overland, New Zealand Geographic, and in newspapers, and he received the Ursula Bethell Residency and the Todd New Writer’s Bursary. He works as an editor and part-time in the restoration of native forests and wetlands.