Deborah Burnside

Deborah Burnside is from Hawke's Bay and operates an award-winning waste and recycling company, and in her spare time writes books. After a successful placement with Tessa Duder on the NZSA mentoring scheme, her first novel, On a Good Day, was shortlisted for the LIANZA awards in 2005. It's True! This Book Is a Load of Rubbish was published by Allen & Unwin in 2005 and was noted in the Wilderness Awards in Australia. Night Hunting, her first foray into junior fiction, was published by Penguin in 2008 and made the Storylines Notable Books List in 2009. Yes, her second YA novel was shortlisted for the NZ Post Book Awards in 2011.