When carried away on a flight of fancy, Bronwyn Elsmore might say that if she’d been gifted with a better voice, she might have chosen to be an opera singer. Sadly for her, that wasn’t the case, but luckily she found she could write. A good list of awards for short stories, plays, and verse confirms that.

Throughout her long writing career Bronwyn has been an advertising copywriter, freelance writer, contract writer, editor, education writer, academic writer, playwright, and writing tutor and mentor. 

She has written over a wide variety of genres – articles, short stories, poetry, stage-plays, fiction and non-fiction. She also has a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington, and spent many years as an academic.

Currently, though, she spends most of her writing time on fiction – particularly novels. Her last play. Fallout: The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, was staged at Basement Theatre in 2016.

When she’s not writing? You might spot her feeding neighbourhood and stray cats, or possibly adding to her list of countries visited to date. And reading, of course.

Website: www.flaxroots.com