Debra Daley is a New Zealand author. Daley was born in New Zealand and is of Irish heritage. She grew up in the west of

Auckland Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The most populous urban area in the country and the fifth largest city in Oceania, Auckland has an urban population of about ...

and graduated from the

University of Auckland , mottoeng = By natural ability and hard work , established = 1883; years ago , endowment = NZD $293 million (31 December 2021) , budget = NZD $1.281 billion (31 December 2021) , chancellor = Cecilia Tarrant , vice_chancellor = Dawn F ...

with an MA in English Literature. She currently lives in the

Bay of Plenty The Bay of Plenty ( mi, Te Moana-a-Toi) is a region of New Zealand, situated around a bight of the same name in the northern coast of the North Island. The bight stretches 260 km from the Coromandel Peninsula in the west to Cape Runaw ...

. Daley has worked as journalist, in public health, and as a screenwriter, working on the television dramas ''Universal Drive'', ''The Shadow Trader'', ''At the End of the Day'', ''Pristine''. Daley has published three novels, ''The Revelations of Carey Ravine'' (2016), ''Turning the Stones'' (2014), and ''The Strange Letter Z'' (1996). ''The Revelations of Carey Ravine'' and ''Turning the Stones'' are both historical fiction, set in 18th-century England and Ireland. Her first novel, ''The Strange Letter'' Z, takes place in Mexico and New Zealand in the 1980s. She has also published a number of short stories. In 1992 she won the Lilian Ida Smith Award. She received the Grimshaw-Sargeson Fellowship in 2013 with

Toa Fraser Toa Fraser (born 1975) is a New Zealand born playwright and film director, of Fijian heritage. His first feature film, '' No. 2'', starring Ruby Dee won the Audience Award (World Dramatic) at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. His second, ''Dean ...

. In 2005 she was awarded the

Creative New Zealand The Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa (Creative New Zealand) is the national arts development agency of the New Zealand government, investing in artists and arts organisations, offering capability building programmes and developing markets ...

Louis Johnson New Writers’ Bursary.

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External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Daley, Debra Living people 1967 births New Zealand fiction writers New Zealand women novelists New Zealand screenwriters New Zealand women screenwriters University of Auckland alumni Writers from Auckland New Zealand people of Irish descent People from the Bay of Plenty Region