Caging Skies

Christine Leunens is the author of three novels, which have been translated into more than twenty languages. Born in Hartford, Connecticut to an Italian mother and a Belgian father, she has dual New Zealand/Belgian citizenship. She holds a Master of Liberal Arts in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard University, and a PhD in Creative Writing from Victoria University of Wellington. She now lives in Nelson and has completed a historical Franco-New Zealand novel, In Amber's Wake, set around the time of the Rainbow Warrior bombing.