Kyle Mewburn

Kyle is one of New Zealand’s finest, and most eclectic, picture book writers. From multi-layered picture books Old Hu-hu, Kiss!Kiss! Yuck!Yuck!, and Melu; to laugh-out-loud junior fiction series – notably Dinosaur Rescue and Dragon Knight – her titles have been translated into over a dozen languages and won numerous awards including Children’s Book of the Year.

She was Children’s Writer-in-Residence at Otago University in 2011 and President of the New Zealand Society of Authors from 2013-2017.

Originally from Brisbane, Kyle lives with her wife, Marion, two cats and 24 chickens, in a house with a grass roof near the sleepy village of Millers Flat. When she’s not writing she’s either searching for hidden eggs or exploring the exciting world she discovered in her closet.