Katie Furze writes children’s fiction and non-fiction including picture books, stories, articles, plays, readers and novels. She has a master’s degree in creative writing and is fascinated by science and nature.

Her books include Pekapeka, Secret Forest Bat; Ruru, Night Hunter and Tuatara, a Living Treasure illustrated by Ned Barraud. Katie is a regular contributor to The School Magazine in Australia and The New Zealand School Journal. She has also published stories in anthologies and written readers and plays under work-for-hire agreements.

When she’s not reading or writing, Katie enjoys the outdoors: tramping, yoga, travelling and scuba diving. She lives in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland with her family.

Katie has been shortlisted twice for the Storylines Joy Cowley Award, and once for the Storylines Tom Fitzgibbon Award.