page_title: List of New Zealand women writers
section_title: M
hierarchical_section_title: List of New Zealand women writers / M
caption_attribution_description: English: Margaret Mahy and her winning book, 'The Moon &amp; Farmer McPhee'. 2011 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards.
context_page_description: This is a list of women writers who were born in New Zealand or whose lives and works are closely associated with that country.
context_section_description: Mary McCallum (born 1961), poet, novelist, children's author, songwriter, editor and publisher
  Charlotte Macdonald (fl. 1990s), historian and non-fiction writer
  Rebecca Macfie, non-fiction author and journalist
  Catherine Julia Mackay (1864–1944), Australian-born New Zealand journalist and cook
  Jessie Mackay (1864–1938), poet
  Anna Mackenzie (born 1963), children's and YA writer
  Hester Maclean (1859–1932), Australian-born New Zealand nurse, matron and autobiographer
  Margaret Mahy (1936–2012), children's and young adults' writer
  Becky Manawatu (born 1982), novelist
  Jane Mander (1877–1949), novelist and journalist
  Juliet Marillier (born 1948), novelist
  Selina Tusitala Marsh (born 1971), New Zealand poet laureate 2017
  Muriel Wallace May (1897–1982), teacher, school principal and writer
  Emilie Monson Malcolm (c.1830–1905), writer
  Clare Mallory (1913–1991), children's writer
  Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923), modernist and short story writer
  Janice Marriott (born 1946), children's writer, screenwriter and poet
  Ngaio Marsh (1895–1982), crime writer
  Mary Ann Martin (1817–1884), British-born New Zealand community leader, teacher and writer
  Kāterina Mataira (1932–2011), Māori language proponent, educator, intellectual, artist and writer
  Sarah Louise Mathew (c.1805–1890), British-born New Zealand diarist
  Peta Mathias (fl. 1990s), food writer and television presenter
  Tina Matthews (born 1961), children's writer, illustrator
  Gill Matthewson (fl. 1980s), architect, educator and writer
  Cath Mayo, children's, young adults' and adult novelist
  Rachel McAlpine (born 1940), poet, playwright, novelist and non-fiction writer
  Mary McCallum (born 1961), novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist
  Sue McCauley (born 1941), novelist, short story writer, playwright, journalist and screenwriter
  Lyn McConchie (born 1946), novelist and children's writer
  Carolyn McCurdie poet, children's and short story writer
  Jill McDonald (1927–1982), New Zealand-born UK-based children's writer and illustrator
  Shona McFarlane (1929–2001), artist, journalist and broadcaster
  Rosemary McLeod (born 1949), writer, journalist and cartoonist
  Linda McNabb (born 1963), British-born New Zealand children's writer
  Cilla McQueen (born 1949), British-born New Zealand poet
  Courtney Sina Meredith (born 1986), poet, playwright, and short story author
  Elizabeth Messenger (1908–1965), journalist, cookery writer and crime novelist
  Miriam Meyerhoff (fl. 2000s), sociolinguist and non-fiction writer
  Karlo Mila (fl. 2003), poet
  Antonija Mitrović (fl. 1990s), Serbian-born New Zealand computer scientist and non-fiction writer
  Tze Ming Mok (born 1978), fiction writer and sociopolitical commentator
  Pérrine Moncrieff (1883–1979), British-born writer and conservationist
  Paula Morris (born 1965), novelist and short story writer
  Elsie K. Morton (1885–1968), journalist and writer
  Shirley Murray (1931–2020), hymn writer
  Margaret Mutu (fl. 2000s), Māori activist and writer
caption: Margaret Mahy and her winning book The Moon & Farmer McPhee at the 2011 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards
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