Elizabeth Knox is the author of thirteen novels, three novellas, and a collection of essays. The Vintner’s Luck, won the Deutz Medal for Fiction in the 1999 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, and the Tasmania Pacific Region Prize, and is pub-lished in thirteen languages. Dreamhunter, won the 2006 Esther Glen Medal. Dreamhunter’s sequel Dreamquake, 2007, was a Michael L Printz Honor book for 2008 and, in the same year, was named an ALA, a CCBC, Booklist, and New York Library best book. Mortal Fire won a NZ Post Children’s book award and was a finalist in the LA Times Book Awards. Elizabeth's latest book is The Absolute Book, VUP NZ 2019, and due February 2021 with Viking in the US and Michael Joseph in the UK. Elizabeth was made a New Zealand Arts Foundation Laureate in 2001, and Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2020, and she won the Prime Minister’s Award for Fiction in 2019. Elizabeth lives in Wellington.