Biography

Born in Christchurch, 1965, Tania Roxborogh spent the first 25 years of her life travelling around the country. As a result of her nomadic childhood, she experienced much of what it meant to grow up in New Zealand in the sixties, seventies and eighties from tobogganing on the slopes of Lakes Ellesmere, to scuba diving in the Bay of Islands, from working in North Canterbury shearing sheds, to painting houses and warehouses in Whangarei. Though her growing up years were fraught with difficulties, some self-inflicted, most not, she persisted with her love of language and literature and graduated from Massey University and Auckland College of Education.

Tania Roxborogh is the author of over twenty published works across a range of genres: novels for teenagers and children, plays for the classroom, Shakespearean texts, English grammar books, and adult non-fiction. She was Writer in Residence at the Dunedin College of Education in 2006. Tania teaches English at a Dunedin secondary school, writes at every opportunity and, with her husband, runs around after two daughters and two border collies.

List of Books Written By Tania Roxborogh

Novels for children and young adults:

If I Could Tell You... Harper Collins Publishers, 1997
Runaway New House Publishers (now Cengage), 1998
Grit New House Publishers (now Cengage), 1998
Compulsion Scholastic New Zealand 1999
Whispers Scholastic New Zealand 2001***
Limelight Scholastic New Zealand 2002***
The Ring New House Publishers (now Cengage), 2002***
Third Degree Longacre Press 2005***
Space Gum Longacre Press 2008
Banquo’s Son Penguin 2009
Bloodlines Penguin 2010

Non-Fiction:

Fat Like Me - Penguin Books August 2005
No, it’s not okay: strategies to help parents, teachers and kids stop the bullying cycle - Penguin, 2007
Kids Behaving Bravely: building a resilient child. - Penguin Books 2008

Plays:

Fifteen Minute Shakespeare - Longman Paul 1997
Twenty Minute Shakespeare - Longman Paul 1998
Three Funny Plays - New House Publishers, (now Cengage), 1998
Three Spooky Plays - New House Publishers, (now Cengage), 1999

Text Books:

Performing With Purpose - Longman Paul 1995
English Basics - New House Publishers, (now Cengage), 1999
More English Basics - New House Publishers, (now Cengage), 2000
The Essential Shakespeare Series: The Merchant of Venice - New House Publishers, (now Cengage) 2001
The Essential Shakespeare Series: Macbeth - New House Publishers, (now Cengage), 2003
The Essential Shakespeare Series: The Tempest - New House Publishers , (now Cengage), 2003

***written with assistance from Creative New Zealand writing grants

Written contributions to journals:

Setting the Jewel: guidelines for effective writing, English in Aotearoa December 2003
Confessions of a Word-carver - reflections of a work in progress. E: Mag Feb 2004