Una Cruickshank has an MA in Creative Writing from theInternational Institute of Modern Letters, and another earlier MA thatshe doesn't talk about as much. She was born in Tamaki MakaurauAuckland and now lives in Poneke Wellington. She works at anaudiovisual archive and haunts the city's cinemas and libraries, andthat one karaoke place that smells like boiled meat. The ChthonicCycle is her first book.