Merryn Jones

Merryn Jones (Ngati Rakaipaaka) lives in New Zealand. She is a senior nurse whose career spans four decades, an academic writer and researcher. In 2021, she completed a Diploma in Writing Stories for Children, gaining an excellence in her course. The same year she won
the Maori Literature Trust's Pikihuia Award for her short story which was published in Huia Pubisher's Anthology 14.