New Zealand writer and editor
Claire Mabey is a New Zealand children's writer and books editor for The Spinoff.[1] She is the founder of literary festival Verb Wellington.[2]
In 2020 Mabey received a Ghost Light Award at the Wellington Theatre Awards, and was described in the citation as "a force of nature in the Wellington arts community".[3]
In 2024 her first book The Raven's Eye Runaways was published by Allen & Unwin.[4][5] She had received the 2022 Creative New Zealand Louis Johnson New Writer's Bursary to support her work on the novel.[6] Hera Lindsay Bird described it as "powerfully atmospheric", and said Mabey "pays her young readers the highest compliment, by respecting their intelligence, compassion and capacity for language".[7]
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