Juliette MacIver

Juliette MacIver is an internationally award-winning children’s author with more than 25 books published with five major trade publishers. Her work comprises mostly picture books, along with a middle-grade fiction series released in 2024. She has won many awards in her home country of New Zealand, including twice winner of Best Picture Book at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults in 2017 and 2023. She has been shortlisted for the same award on three other occasions, and has received the Storylines Notable Book Award seven times. Her picture book The Grizzled Grist Does Not Exist was included on the White Ravens in 2023, a list of outstanding new releases of children's books around the world.

Her books are available in seven languages across ten countries. In 2023 she completed a Master of Arts degree in linguistics, during which she won two academic prizes. She also holds two teaching qualifications and is a mother of four. Other useful talents include her ability to sing a folk song backwards, do the splits, and solve the Rubik’s cube blindfolded.