Steve Braunias

Steve Braunias is the author of 14 books, including How to Watch a Bird, Civilisation, Missing Persons and The Survivors. His latest book is Polkinghorne: Inside the trial of the century, published by Allen & Unwin in July 2025. He is a columnist with the Listener, a writer with the New Zealand Herald, and serves as literary editor at Newsroom. He lived in the South Island for a year and describes the experience as “disturbing”.

Steve is our fabulous festival dinner speaker!