Catherine Chidgey is one of New Zealand's greatest living writers (Radio NZ). She is the only person to have won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction twice, for The Wish Child and The Axeman's Carnival. Her novels have been published to international acclaim. Her debut, In a Fishbone Church, won Best First Book at the New Zealand Book Awards and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. In the UK it won the Betty Trask Award and was longlisted for the Orange Prize. Her second novel, Golden Deeds, was a Notable Book of the Year in the New York Times Book Review and a Best Book in the LA Times. Remote Sympathy was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. Catherine has won the Prize in Modern Letters, the Katherine Mansfield Award, the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship and the Janet Frame Fiction Prize. Her latest novel is The Book of Guilt. Catherine lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Waikato.