Isa Pearl RitchieIsa Pearl Ritchie

Isa Pearl Ritchie is a Wellington-based feminist, novelist and recovering academic with a PhD on food sovereignty in Aotearoa. She grew up as a Pākehā child in a bicultural family and Māori was her first written language.

How anxiety and illiteracy inspired a young adult fantasy series

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A new fantasy series by Isa Pearl Ritchie focuses on a girl who struggles with anxiety and panic attacks. Here, Ritchie explains how her own childhood sparked Awa and the Dreamrealm.  I was confused a lot of the way through my schooling. I would zone out a lot in class and I struggled to pay … Read more

The Anzac aftershocks are everywhere, in the form of inter-generational trauma

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It is easier to create perfect fictions of heroes than acknowledge their failings, vulnerability and the suffering they caused. But maybe if we stop just seeing the dark stuff as personal, we can really start to deal with it, writes Isa Ritchie. On the April 25 every year, Australians and New Zealanders gather to remember … Read more