Conway, Rosaleen D.

PERSONAL: Born in Wellington, New Zealand; married; children: seven. Ethnicity: "New Zealand." Religion: Roman Catholic.

ADDRESSES: Home—14 Sunset Parade, Plimmerton, New Zealand. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Writer. National Office of Catholic Communications, worked as journalist; Marist Messenger, work as proofreader for nearly twenty years; producer of a Catholic news program on local-access community radio network; freelance radio and print writer.

AWARDS, HONORS: Reader's Digest/New Zealand Society of Authors' Fellowship, Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 1997. Awards for stories from British Broadcasting Corporation and Commonwealth Broadcasting Association, 1997, 1999, and 2002.

WRITINGS:

Saints Alive (short stories), Marist Centre (Wellington, New Zealand), 1987.

Purely Business (novel), Col-Com Press (Orewa, New Zealand), 1995.

Feed My Revenge (contemporary novel), CA Publishing (Mana, NZ), 2003.

Other writings including a film script, The Seeking Feet; a short film, The Birthday Party; and writing for a children's television series. Contributor to periodicals and short story collections.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Research on Irish, Danish, and Maori backgrounds for a collection of short stories.

SIDELIGHTS: Rosaleen D. Conway told CA: "I spent four years researching and writing Feed My Revenge, studying documents and books I didn't expect ever to read. It's a contemporary novel about the Catholic church in the immediate future.

"My first published work was a report of my brother's christening when I was seven. I've never stopped writing. We have seven adult children, and during their growing-up years I found writing much better than dusting."