STACY GREGG
Ngāti Mahuta (Tainui) Ngāti Pukeko (Ngāti Awa) Ngāti Maru (Hauraki)
Stacy Gregg (Ngāti Mahuta/Ngāti Pukeko/Ngāti Maru Hauraki) is the million-copy international bestselling author of books for middle-grade readers including 2025's The Last Journey published by Simon & Schuster UK. Her novel Nine Girls, is set in her hometown of Ngāruawāhia in New Zealand and won the Supreme Margaret Mahy Award at the Children's Book Awards in 2024. She graduated Aupikitanga from te Wānanga o Aotearoa in 2024. Stacy is currently adapting Nine Girls into an animated feature with Dana Leaming, creator and showrunner of Sky TV's Not Even.