Penguin Books Australia

Maxine Alterio grew up in Invercargill and currently lives in Dunedin, where she works as a tertiary educator. She has a BA and a MA (with distinction in Education) from the University of Otago, and also holds a Diploma in Teaching (Tertiary). Her first collection, Live News and Other Stories, was published in 2005 by Steele Roberts Ltd. Several short stories have appeared in anthologies such as Penguin 25 New Fiction (Penguin Books (NZ), 1998); Best New Zealand Fiction Volume 3 (Random House, 2006), and others have been broadcast on Radio New Zealand National. She is also co-author of Learning through Storytelling in Higher Education: Using Reflection and Experience to Improve Learning, published by Dunmore Press in 2002 and Kogan Page/RoutledgeFalmer in 2003.