rebecca k reilly

local woman

writing

interviews

reviews

about

influences

writing

Greta & Valdin

novel, published 2021 by Te Herenga Waka University Press

Put a Straw Under Baby

short story, published by Starling

Videotapes

short story, published by Scum Mag

interviews

profile in Sunday Mag

NZ Book Awards Fiction Round Table

Q&A with Volume Books

Q&A with Kete Books

what I'm reading, Dominion Post

what I'm reading, Canvas

reading & writing for Stuff

Q&A with Vicbooks

profile in Viva

Aotearoa Bookshelf Salon panel

Q&A for Pride

Q&A with Read Close

RNZ Bookmarks (audio)

Verb Festival podcast (audio)

reviews

messy and relatable: a review of greta & valdin, becky manawatu for the pantograph punch

greta & valdin: time for a cultural reset, anna rawhiti-connell for the spinoff

debut novel 'unfairly good', ash davida jane for the dominion post

greta & valdin, josie shapiro, read close

loose reads: greta & valdin, jenna todd for bfm (audio)

afternoons: book critic, claire mabey for rnz (audio)

scorpio books: greta & valdin, bel for rdu (audio)

about

represented by

martha perotto-wills at the bent agency (uk)

te herenga waka press (nz)

rebecca k reilly b. 1991 (ngāti hine, ngāti rehua ki ngātiwai) is a novelist from waitākere, new zealand.

she has a bachelor of arts (hons) in german and european studies from the university of auckland and a master of arts from the iiml at victoria university of wellington, where she won the adam foundation prize in creative writing for 2019.

in 2022 her first book greta & valdin won the hubert church prize for fiction and the aotearoa booksellers' choice award.