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 hills around the Port Hills, 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, an award winning writer and teacher, is the author of over thirty 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. In 2014, Tania was the recipient of a Teach NZ study award and, in December 2015, graduated with a BA in Māori from Otago University. Tania and her husband live in Lincoln, Canterbury where she teaches at the local high school and, in her spare time, fits in writing and reading and taking care of her animals.

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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, 1998; reprinted by TK Roxborogh
Grit New House Publishers, 1998; reprinted by TK Roxborogh
Compulsion Scholastic New Zealand 1999; reprinted by TK Roxborogh
Whispers Scholastic New Zealand 2001
Limelight Scholastic New Zealand 2002
The Ring New House Publishers, 2002; reprinted by TK Roxborogh
Third Degree Longacre Press 2005
Space Gum Longacre Press 2008
Banquo’s Son Penguin NZ, 2009; republished by Thomas & Mercer (UK) 2015
Bloodlines Penguin NZ, 2010; republished by Thomas & Mercer (UK) 2016
Birthright, Penguin NZ, 2013
Bastion Point, Scholastic NZ, 2017
Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea, Huia Publishers, 2020

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 - republished as an ebook by Bay Road Media as 'Stop Bullying'
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
Getting Familiar With The Unfamiliar, NCEA English L1, Cengage 2017
Getting Familiar With The Unfamiliar, NCEA English L2, Cengage 2018
Serious Fun in English, Book 1, Cengage 2019
Getting Familiar With The Unfamiliar, NCEA English L3, Cengage 2020

Poetry:

'The First Signs', The Otago Daily Times, 2011
'At 17', The Otago Daily Times, 2013; The NZ Listener 2014
'On Leaving,' The Otago Daily Times, 2016
'Rapurapu Weaving', in Ko Aotearoa Tātou - We Are New Zealand, edited by Michelle Elvy, Paula Morris, James Norcliffe, David Eggleton (Art Editor), Otago University Press, 2020