Ruth Paul lives in an off-grid, straw-bale house on a farm just outside Wellington, New Zealand. As well as writing and illustrating children’s picture books, Ruth has worked as a costume illustrator for Peter Jackson movies.
In 2019 she was awarded the Arts Foundation Mallinson Rendel Laureate Award, and in 2023 she was University of Otago College of Education Creative New Zealand Children’s Writer in Residence Fellow.
Ruth started writing and illustrating her own picture books in 2004, and has created over 15 titles. The King’s Bubbles won the NZ Post Children’s Choice picture book award in 2008, and three of her books have made the Storylines Notable Book list over the years.
She is passionate about conservation and a predator free area has been created on her own property in Mākara where wild kiwi can safely roam.
