Bonnie Etherington

Authors / Editor

Bonnie Etherington. Editor at Large at IDWRITERS. Originally from New Zealand, but grew up in West Papua. Her debut novel, The Earth Cries Out (Penguin Random House NZ, 2017), is based on her experiences in West Papua. It was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize and long-listed for the 2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Guernica, Hawai’i Review, Landfall, Meniscus, and Headland, among other publications.

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