Jacqueline Bublitz

Jacqueline Bublitz (born 1977) is a New Zealand author. She won two Ngaio Marsh Awards in 2022 for her debut crime novel Before You Knew My Name. She was also the recipient of the 2022 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) for General Fiction Book of the Year. She won two 2022 Davitt Awards, for Best Debut Crime and Reader's Choice, and was the only female to be shortlisted for the Gold Dagger Awards UK in 2022.

Early life

Jacqueline Bublitz was born to John and Jo Bublitz and is the youngest of five children who were raised in Waitara, New Zealand. She attended New Plymouth Girls High School and was an exchange student with AFS in 1993. She is called "Rocky" by friends and close acquaintances, which is an abbreviation of her middle name Rochelle. It was during this time living in Melbourne that she began to write.

Her agent is Cara Lee Simpson at SLA