Claire Mabey is writer, founder of Verb Wellington, LitCrawl Wellington and books editor at The Spinoff. She has worked at many arts and book festivals over the past 15 years and still feels passionate about the role of festivity in our lives. Claire is a book reviewer on RNZ and writes a sporadic Substack newsletter called Domestic Animals. Her first novel, The Raven's Eye Runaways, published by Allen & Unwin, is a middle grade adventure novel about the magic of books, the importance of friendship and the secrets buried deep in families. Claire is mum to Charlie and lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington where she is constantly grateful for the South Coast, the town belt and the wild and unpredictable weather.

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