You can also visit the blog 'written' by her character Jane Shore, from the novel TRENDY BUT CASUAL: everybodyneedstwoorthreefriends. She has taught creative writing at universities in the US and the UK, and is currently Fiction Writer-in-Residence at the University of Sheffield.

and the US, including an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Paula has degrees from universities in New Zealand, the U.K. She is the editor of THE PENGUIN BOOK OF CONTEMPORARY NEW ZEALAND SHORT STORIES (2008).īoth HIBISCUS COAST and RUINED have been optioned for film. NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction: Queen of Beauty Paula Morris Winner NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry: Feeding the. Paula's short stories have been widely published and broadcast in both New Zealand and the US, and her short story collection, Forbidden Cities (2008), was a regional finalist in the 2009 Commonwealth Prize. From master of suspense Paula Morris comes a tale of gods and goddesses, thrilling romance, and mystery set in present-day Rome.Laura Martin is visiting Rome on a class trip, and she's entranced by the majestic Colosseum, the Trevi Fountain, the Pantheon. In 2013 she published her first children's book, HENE AND THE BURNING HARBOUR (Puffin New Zealand). RANGATIRA won best book of fiction at the 2012 New Zealand Post Book Awards and the Nga Kupu Ora Maori Book Awards. Paula is also the author of award-winning novels for adults, published by Penguin Books in her native New Zealand: QUEEN OF BEAUTY (2002) HIBISCUS COAST (2005) TRENDY BUT CASUAL (2007) and RANGATIRA (2011). She is the author of three novels for young adults, all published by Scholastic: RUINED, a mystery with a supernatural twist set in New Orleans DARK SOULS, a novel set in the ancient - and haunted - city of York, England and UNBROKEN, a sequel to RUINED. For ten years, she worked in London and New York, first as a publicist and marketing executive in the record business, and later as a branding consultant and advertising copywriter.

Paula Morris is a novelist and short story writer from New Zealand.

The Eternal City by Paula Morris