Elena de Roo
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Elena de Roo is a New Zealand children's writer and poet. She has been the recipient of several awards including the Todd New Writer’s Bursary in 2010 and the University of Otago College of Education / Creative New Zealand Children's Writer in Residence Fellowship in 2020. She lives in Auckland, New Zealand.
Elena de Roo was born in Hamilton.[1] She attended seven different primary schools around New Zealand until moving to Auckland when she was eleven.[2]
She graduated with a degree in English from the University of Auckland and later worked as a librarian.[1]
She started writing for children in 2004.[3] Several of her books have been named in the Storylines Notable Books List. She has written for educational publishers in New Zealand, Australia and the United States.[4][5] Her work has also appeared in Poems in the Waiting Room,[6] online blogs[7] and anthologies such as A Treasury of NZ Poems for Children (Penguin Random House, 2014)[8][9] and Summer Days: Stories and Poems Celebrating the Kiwi Summer (Penguin Random House, 2017).[10]
She is one of the authors of the children’s writing online competition FABO Story.[11][12]
In 2018, Elena de Roo completed a Master of Creative Writing at Auckland University of Technology.[13][14]
She is married with three children and lives in Auckland.[1]
Awards and Prizes
Elena de Roo was the recipient of the Todd New Writer’s Bursary in 2010.[15] In the same year, she won the Manawatū (New Zealand) International Poetry for Performance Competition.[3] She was Commended in the 2019 National Flash Fiction Day Competition.[16]
In 2020, she was awarded the University of Otago College of Education Creative New Zealand Children's Writer in Residence Fellowship.[17]
Bibliography
- On a Roll, Illustrated by Duncan Scott (Rainbow Reading Programme, 2007)[18]
- Super Squeeze, Illustrated by Duncan Scott (Rainbow Reading Programme, 2007)[19]
- Blender Trouble, Illustrated by Peter Lole (Rainbow Reading Programme, 2007)[20]
- The Rain Train, illustrated by Brian Lovelock (Walker Books Australia, 2010)[21][22]
- Ophelia Wild, Secret Spy, ill. Tracy Duncan (Walker Books Australia, 2012)
- Ophelia Wild, Deadly Detective, ill. Tracy Duncan (Walker Books Australia, 2014)
- The Name at the End of the Ladder (Walker Books Australia, 2014)[23]
- Catch a Cloud, Illustrated by Anuska Allepuz (Faber & Faber, 2020)
- Rush, Rush! illustrated by Jenny Cooper (One Tree House, 2021)
- To Catch a Cloud, ill. Hannah Peck (Faber, 2023)
