Colleen Shipley

As the Marlborough Girls’ College Librarian, Colleen Shipley is on a mission to inspire local teens to read for pleasure. She also writes articles for professional publications and book reviews for New Zealand young adult fiction. In recent years Colleen has had a double life, researching local war history and writing her first novel Wrens Under the Radar.

Colleen lives in Marlborough, a stone’s throw from the farm house commandeered as a spy base for the women in her novel.