Paula has published four YA mysteries with Scholastic US: Ruined (2009) and its sequel Unbroken (2013), Dark Souls (2011) and The Eternal City (2015). She is also the editor of The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories (2009). Paula's first short story collection, Forbidden Cities (2008) was a regional finalist in the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. In 2012 Rangatira won the fiction category at the New Zealand Post Book Awards and the Nga Kupu Ora Maori Book Awards, and was published in German by Walde+Graf. Her most recent novel for Penguin is Rangatira (2011), based on the true story of a trip by Maori rangatira to England in 1863. Her third novel, Trendy But Casual, a comedy set in New York, was published by Penguin New Zealand in 2005. Hibiscus Coast, a literary thriller set in Auckland and Shanghai, was published in 2005. Paula's first novel, Queen of Beauty, won best first work of fiction at the 2003 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. She currently teaches at the University of Auckland. A graduate of creative writing programs at Victoria University in Wellington and the University of Iowa, Paula has taught creative writing in the UK, New Zealand, Europe, China and the US. For almost a decade she worked in the record business in London and New York. Paula Morris, a novelist and short story writer of English and Maori descent, was born in New Zealand.
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