Rachael King is a writer, reviewer, former literary festival director and ex-bass player living in Ōtautahi Christchurch.
She’s the author of two novels for children: Red Rocks, which won the Esther Glen Medal, and The Grimmelings, published February 2024. Her adult novels, The Sound of Butterflies and Magpie Hall, were published in nine languages altogether. Red Rocks has inspired the Sky NZ Originals TV series, broadcast 2025, with a new edition of the book released as Secrets at Red Rocks.
Rachael received a Waitangi Day Honour Award in 2020 from the New Zealand Society of Authors for her work at WORD Christchurch bringing Behrouz Boochani to New Zealand. In 2023 she was named Best Reviewer at the Voyager New Zealand Media Awards.
