KERRY SUNDERLAND
About Kerry
Writer, editor, freelance journalist

Kerry Sunderland is an Australian writer based in Aotearoa New Zealand. Her words have been published in New Zealand Geographic, The Spinoff, NZ Listener, North & South, Nelson Mail/Stuff and the Byron Echo, as well as numerous trade magazines including Inside Film, Metro Magazine, Filmink, Research News, Research World, HR Monthly and Australian Educator.


Kerry has a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Victoria University of Wellington (2017) and was joint winner of the 2018 Hachette Mentorship in Australia for her yet-to-be published memoir, Beyond the Blue Door.


Her personal essay, 'Mother Issues', was published in 'Otherhood: Essays on being Childfree, Childless and Child-Adjacent (Massey University Press, 2024). Her short memoir, 'The Eagle's Gift' was published in A Liminal Gathering (Elixir & Star Press, 2024). Her personal essay, ‘Scared to Death’, which was published in Headlands: New Stories of Anxiety (Victoria University Press, 2018) deals with similar themes to Beyond the Blue Door.


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