Redmer Yska is an award-winning writer and historian based in Wellington. He has published books on a range of subjects, including New Zealand youth culture, Dutch New Zealanders (like himself), a biography of Wellington City and a history of the tabloid newspaper, NZ Truth. This is Yskas second book about Katherine Mansfield. His first, A Strange Beautiful Excitement: Katherine Mansfields Wellington (Otago University Press, 2017), was longlisted for the 2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.