Peta Carey

Peta Carey is the author of The Hollows Boys, the story of the helicopter deer recovery era in Fiordland, told through the lives of three brothers, Gary, Mark and Kim Hollows. The Hollows Boys was shortlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards General Non-fiction Category. Peta has worked in media all her life, as a television presenter, then as a documentary director and one-person camera-operator. She has made films in New Zealand, East Africa and the South Pacific, and also spent a number of years producing and directing current affairs. She has written for various magazines as a freelance contributor and more recently she has turned to writing nonfiction books. Over the course of her career she has traversed many subject areas, cultures, genres and war-torn corners of the globe and has interviewed people from all walks of life. She lives outside Queenstown where she continues to enjoy time in the mountains of Fiordland and Mt Aspiring Park.