Sacha Cotter is an award-winning children’s writer based in Wellington, Aotearoa. She is the author of picture books Keys / Ngā Kī, The Marble Maker / Te Kaihanga Māpere, the 2019 Margaret Mahy Book of the Year The Bomb / Te Pohū and most recently Dazzlehands / Ringakōreko – all published by HUIA Publishers, translated by Kawata Teepa, and illustrated by Josh Morgan. 

Sacha  has also been involved in writing and creating children’s television. She has written for The Kiddets, The Book Hungry Bears and helped create and develop Extreme Cake Sports for HEIHEI TVNZ. Sacha has written for Wild Things magazine and The School Journal. Her children’s poetry has been published in Roar, Squeak, Purr - A New Zealand Treasury of Animal Poems, published by Penguin Random House. Sacha grew up in and around Kawerau in the Bay of Plenty. She is Pākehā, of Irish and Lebanese descent.

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