Catherine Chidgey

Catherine Chidgey is the author of In a Fishbone Church (1998), Golden Deeds (2000), The Transformation (2003), The Wish Child (2016), the ‘found novel’ The Beat of the Pendulum (2019), Remote Sympathy (2021), Pet (2023), The Axeman’s Carnival (2024) and The Book of Guilt (2025). Her novels have been published to international acclaim and have been shortlisted and won numerous prizes. She lives in Ngāruawāhia, New Zealand, and lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Waikato.