| Tina Shaw | |
| Birth Place: | Auckland, New Zealand |
| Nationality: | New Zealander |
| Website: | Official website |
Tina Shaw (born 1961) is a New Zealand author.
Shaw was born in 1961, in Auckland, New Zealand and grew up in Matangi and Christchurch.[1]
Novels published by Shaw include:
She edited the travel writing collection, A Passion for Travel (1998) and with Jack Ross, the anthology Myths of the 21st Century (Reed, 2006).
Shaw received the 1999 Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship[2] and the Creative New Zealand 2001 Berlin Writers Residency.[3] She was the 2005 writer in residence at the University of Waikato.
In 2003, her story 'Coarse Fishing' was runner-up in the Sunday-Star Times Short Story Competition.
About Griffen’s Heart (2009) was listed as a 2010 Notable Young Adult Fiction Book by Storylines[4] and was shortlisted in the 2010 LIANZA Children and Young Adult Book Awards.[5]
The Children's Pond (2014) was shortlisted for the 2015 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel.[6]
In 2018, Shaw won the Tessa Duder Award for her manuscript Ursa. She won the 2023 Michael Gifkins Prize for her unpublished manuscript, A House Built on Sand, to be published by Text Publishing.[7]