Tim Saunders
Biography
Tim Saunders farms sheep and beef near Palmerston North. He has written three children's picture books, The Tractor has a Wobbly Wheel, The Sheep that Stole the Farmer's Hat and The Little Kiwi Builder, and two adult non-fiction titles, This Farming Life and Under a Big Sky. He was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2021 for his story Carved; the only New Zealander to be shortlisted for this prestigious prize that year. He has had poetry and short stories published in Headland, Best Small Fictions, takahē, Landfall, Poetry NZ Yearbook, Broadsheet, RNZ and Flash Frontier. He won the 2018 MindFood Magazine Short Story Competition. He was joint winner of the Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize in 2023. He performs poetry around the Manawatu and beyond.
