SAIGE ENGLAND is a Christchurch writer. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) at Victoria University of Wellington. In her previous career as a journalist Saige won a number of Qantas Media Awards and the New Zealand Media Peace Award. Her poetry has been published in a number of journals and anthologies. As a journalist she has worked in various conflict zones including Romania, the former Yugoslavia and the Middle East. Her journalism and feature articles have been published in the Daily Telegraph, the Financial Times and the NZ Listener. Saige also spent some years reporting on claims to the Waitangi Tribunal. Saige's short fiction has been anthologised by Penguin New Zealand. The Seasonwife is her first novel.