Lawrence Patchett
Biography
Lawrence Patchett is a Pākehā writer from Ōtautahi Christchurch. His previous books include I Got His Blood on Me: Frontier Tales, which won the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction. His writing has appeared in Landfall, Overland, New Zealand Geographic, and in newspapers, and he received the Ursula Bethell Residency and the Todd New Writer’s Bursary. He works as an editor and part-time in the restoration of native forests and wetlands.
