Rod MacKenzie

Rod Mackenzie has launched his new book Please Tell Me About The Trees: Exploring a Post-Apocalyptic New Zealand through Narrative, Pictures and Poetry. He has published a memoir of his life in China, Cracking China, which was received with great enthusiasm by many critics. It is also available on Kindle.他会讲普通话。(He can also read and write Mandarin.) Other books include fiction, The Orphan Country Trilogy: Kist, Time to Go and Snake, all available on Kindle and soon available on paperback (print on demand).

In South Africa he was a well-known blogger and columnist, for example “Rod MacKenzie” on the Mail and Guardian.

His controversial columns led to numerous radio interviews, such as The Kate Turkington Show. He completed a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing at the University of Auckland. Rod has created in-house educational textbooks for primary and high school students, and TEFL texts for adults and kids learning English in China. He has created copy for many adverts.

Currently he is helping a client in the UK create a novel in the “business novel” genre for which Rod has been commissioned. He has done everything from re-writing website content to drive more business to rewriting memoirs.

As he has travelled widely, he brings broad, rich experience to his writing. Not only has he lived and worked in his native South Africa, he has also lived and worked in England, China (for seven years) and now lives in New Zealand where he is a citizen. Countries and places he has also visited include Ireland, Canada, the USA, Israel, France, Scotland and parts of Africa. He has taught English at all levels, both as a mother tongue language and to foreign speakers.

He has also published a collection of poetry, Gathering Light.