Resurrection (Blood of the Lamb) (33 page)

MANDY HAGER is an award-winning writer and educator based in Wellington, New Zealand. She has a drive to tell stories that matter—direct, powerful stories with something to say. She won the 2010 New Zealand Post Children's Book Award for Young Adult Fiction for
The Crossing
and has twice won the LIANZA Book Awards for YA fiction. In 2012 she was awarded the Beatson Fellowship to write
Dear Vincent
, a story about suicide, painting, and Vincent Van Gogh. In 2014 she was named the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellow (one of New Zealand's oldest and most prestigious writing awards), with the opportunity to travel to the south of France for eight months of writing and research. Visit her online at
www.mandyhager.com
, at
www.facebook.com/BloodOfTheLambTrilogy
, and on Twitter
@MandyHager
.