Dianne Ruth Pettis

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

Background 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.

Works

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

Poetry Pettis' poetry and short fiction have been included in Landfall, Sport and Takahe, and broadcast on Radio New Zealand. In 2006 she was awarded the Robert Burns Fellowship, a literary residency at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.