Mary McCallum is a writer and publisher who lives in the Wairarapa and Poneke. Her own published work includes award-winning novel The Blue; a poetry book XYZ of Happiness and a children's novel Dappled Annie and the Tigrish. She won the inaugural Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize and her poem 'Sycamore Tree' was selected for Best NZ Poems. She is a director of Mākaro Press and The Cuba Press.