Dianne Ruth Pettis

Dianne Ruth Pettis (1955 – 13 May 2008) was a novelist and journalist from New Zealand.

Pettis was born in Waipawa, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. In addition to her novels, poetry, and short stories, she worked as a journalist, a script writer for the Natural History Unit and a communications manager.^[1]

• Like Small Bones (2004)
• The First Touch of Light (2009)

Pettis' poetry and short fiction have been included in Landfall, Sport and Takahe, and broadcast on Radio New Zealand.^[1] Her work was also included in:

• Under Flagstaff: and Anthology of Dunedin Poetry (2004), edited by Robin Law
• Swings and Roundabouts (2008), edited by Emma Neale

Like Small Bones, was shortlisted for the Best First Book section in the Asia Pacific region for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.^[2] In 2006 she was awarded the Robert Burns Fellowship, a literary residency at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.^[3]

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