Isa Pearl Ritchie is a New Zealand writer with a PhD in social science. She writes novels for adults and for young people. Her second novel, Fishing for Maui, was named one of the best books of 2018 in The Listener Magazine, and was a finalist in the NZ Booklovers awards 2019. She has also written the Dreamweavers, a lucid dreaming fantasy series suitable for readers aged 9+