Michelle Duff

About

Michelle Duff is a writer and journalist based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. In 2023, she did her MA in Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters, where she won the IIML Prize for Fiction. Her debut short story collection, Surplus Women, will be published by Te Herenga Waka University Press in April 2025. Michelle has been selected for the prestigious Michael King Writers Centre Residency, which she will take up in 2025. Alongside her fiction, her award-winning journalism focuses on social issues like health, inequality, gender, and the climate crisis, with work appearing in The Guardian, New Zealand Geographic, and Landfall, among others. Michelle has twice won General Feature Writer of the Year at the Voyager Media Awards, and continues to tell powerful stories as a freelancer.

Writing

• The Guardian | ‘We learned the hard way’: Samoa remembers a deadly measles outbreak and a visit from RFK Jr
• NZ Geographic | We think in generations, not in quarterly reports.
• The Guardian | Reporting into Māori Inequity
• Turbine | Five times Roxanne has lied about her vagina

Contact

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