Tom E. Moffatt, originally from Uxbridge, London, trained as a primary school teacher and taught in Japan, Italy, the United Arab Republic and Colombia before making his home in Rotorua where he lives with his wife and three daughters.

His debut novel, Barking Mad, won the 2015 Storylines Tom Fitzgibbon Award and was a 2017 Storylines Notable Junior Fiction book. He has since released two collections of Bonkers Short Stories. Among his eight books successfully self-published is You’re Joking: Become an Expert Joke-Teller, a finalist in the 2021 New Zealand Children’s and Young AdultBook Awards and named as a Storylines Notable Non-fiction Book.