Stephanie Johnson has published 10 more novels. She is a past winner of the Montana Book Award (for The Shag Incident), the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship in Menton and the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award. She has also held the University of Auckland writers residency and several of her novels have been long-listed for the Impac Awards in Dublin. With Peter Wells, Stephanie founded the highly successful Auckland Writers Festival in 1998. Known also for her poetry, plays and short stories, Stephanie lives in Auckland. Her most recent novel is Jarulan by the River (HarperCollins 2017), published under her pseudonym Lily Woodhouse.