Fifi Colston has a richly varied career as a writer, illustrator, poet, Wearable Art designer, film costumer, television presenter and occasional columnist. She has illustrated numerous books for trade and education and for many years she has presented arts and crafts programming, first on the children's television show What Now, and later on TVNZ's Good Morning show. Her second novel Janie Olive: a recipe for disaster! was a CLFNZ Junior Fiction Notable Book for 2006, as was her third, Glory, which was also an Esther Glen Award finalist in the 2010 LIANZA Book Awards. Colston's latest two costuming books for children, Wearable Wonders and Ghoulish Getups, were finalists in the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, with Wearable Wonders winning the 2014 Elsie Locke Medal for Non-Fiction. Colston previously served as a New Zealand Post Book Awards judge, convener of the Wellington Children's Book Association, and Wellington committee member for the Storylines Festival.