Collection: Una Cruickshank

Author photo: Ebony Lamb

Una Cruickshank has an MA in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, and another earlier MA that she doesn’t talk about as much. She was born in Tamaki Mākaurau Auckland and now lives in Pōneke Wellington. She works at an audiovisual archive and haunts the city’s cinemas and libraries, and that one karaoke place that smells like boiled meat. The Chthonic Cycle (2024), her first book, won the E.H. McCormick Prize for Best First Book at the 2025 Ockham NZ Book Awards.