Debra Daley

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Debra Daley is a New Zealand author.

Daley was born in New Zealand and is of Irish heritage.{{Cite news|url=https://www.writing.ie/resources/deborah-daley-location-as-inspiration-for-turning-the-stones/|title=Deborah Daley: Location as Inspiration for ‘Turning the Stones’|date=30 April 2014|work=Writing.ie|access-date=30 November 2017|language=en-US}} She grew up in the west of Auckland and graduated from the University of Auckland with an MA in English Literature.{{Cite news|url=http://www.anzliterature.com/member/debra-daley/|title=Debra Daley|work=Academy of New Zealand Literature|access-date=30 November 2017|language=en-US}} She currently lives in the Bay of Plenty.{{Cite web|url=https://www.quercusbooks.co.uk/authors/detail.page?id=kAc3Qz2L8-JRMSbDOkOTJ1VWh9nQ4C0reFsBjoygGXNvqBb7ZklA-5Z2O4XBVCU_|title=Debra Daley|website=Quercus Books|access-date=30 November 2017}}

Daley has worked as journalist, in public health, and as a screenwriter, working on the television dramas Universal Drive, The Shadow Trader, At the End of the Day, Pristine.

Daley has published three novels, The Revelations of Carey Ravine (2016),{{Cite book|title=The Revelations of Carey Ravine|last=Daley|first=Debra|publisher=Heron Book|year=2016|isbn=9781782069935}} Turning the Stones (2014),{{Cite book|title=Turning the Stones|last=Debra Daley|first=Debra|publisher=Heron Press|year=2014|isbn=9781782069898}} and The Strange Letter Z (1996).{{Cite book|title=The Strange Letter Z|last=Daley|first=Debra|publisher=Heron Press|year=1996|isbn=9780140254099}} The Revelations of Carey Ravine and Turning the Stones are both historical fiction, set in 18th-century England and Ireland. Her first novel, The Strange Letter Z, takes place in Mexico and New Zealand in the 1980s.{{Cite web|url=https://historicalwriters.org/writer/debra-daley/|title=Debra Daley|website=Historical Writers|language=en-GB|access-date=30 November 2017}} She has also published a number of short stories.

In 1992 she won the Lilian Ida Smith Award.{{Cite web|url=https://authors.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Lilian-Ida-Smith-Award-recipients-to-2015.pdf|title=Lilian Ida Smith Award Recipients|website=New Zealand Society of Authors & Writers Association|access-date=30 November 2017}} She received the Grimshaw-Sargeson Fellowship in 2013 with Toa Fraser.{{Cite news|url=http://www.grimshaw.co.nz/about-us/grimshaw-sargeson-fellowship/|title=Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship|work=Grimshaw Sargeson|access-date=30 November 2017|language=en-US}} In 2005 she was awarded the Creative New Zealand Louis Johnson New Writers’ Bursary.{{Cite web|url=http://www.creativenz.govt.nz/assets/ckeditor/attachments/109/05-06-1.pdf?1296993710|title=Creative New Zealand Grants 2005-2006|website=Creative New Zealand|access-date=30 November 2017}}