piece The Organ Farmer won the Weta Workshop Science Fiction award. Her work has been exhibited many times in the World of Wearable Art Museum in Nelson, and some of her pieces have toured New Zealand and overseas in WOW travelling exhibitions. In 2018 she took part in The Big Hoot, a fundraiser for Child Cancer Foundation, and she won the Fantastical Shoe section in the 2018 Shoes Extravaganza shoe design competition. She is married with two adult children and lives in Wellington, New Zealand. Awards and residencies Several of Colston's books have been shortlisted for or have won awards or been named as Storylines Notable Books. She was a finalist in the Esther Glen Award 2010 for Glory, in the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards 2014 (Non fiction) for Wearable Wonders, in the New Zealand Children's Book Awards 2015 for Ghoulish Get Ups and in the Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2017 with Torty and the Soldier. She won the 2014 LIANZA Elsie Locke Non-Fiction Award for Wearable Wonders. Her YA novel Wild Cards was shortlisted for the 2016 Storylines Tessa Duder Award. In 2019, she was named as the University of Otago College of Education/Creative New Zealand Children's Writer in Residence. Bibliography Writer/ Illustrator Fifi's Crafty Arts (Ashton Scholastic, 1995) Fifi's Crafty Arts 2 (Ashton Scholastic, 1995) Fifi's Festive Fun (Ashton Scholastic, 1995) Verity's Truth (Scholastic, 2003) Janie Olive: A Recipe for Disaster! (Scholastic, 2005) Glory (Scholastic, 2009) Wearable Wonders (Scholastic, 2013) Ghoulish Get Ups (Scholastic, 2014) Illustrator Old Man and the Cat by Anthony Holcroft (Whitcoulls, 1984) Rain by Barbara Hill (Ashton Scholastic, 1984) Oldest Garden in China by Anthony Holcroft (Whitcoulls, 1985) Mr Magee Came Home for His Tea by Janet Slater Redhead (Ashton Scholastic, 1986) Not Without Randolph by Ruth Corrin (Ashton Scholastic, 1993) Midnight Feast by Elizabeth Pulford (Scholastic, 1996) Get Real Paddy Manson by Ruth Corrin (HarperCollins, 1996) Toroa text by Te Aorere Riddell; photographs by Brian Gunson (Huia, 2001) Waka Wairua: The Spirit Waka by Yvonne Morrison (Reed, 2005) Papa's Island by Melanie Drewery (Reed, 2006) Itiiti's Gift by Melanie Drewery (Reed, 2006) The Red Poppy by David Hill (Scholastic, 2012) Published in te reo Māori as Te popi whero. Far, Far From Home by Elizabeth Pulford (Scholastic, 2012) Toughen up, Andrew! by Anne Manchester (Submarine, 2016) Grandad’s Guitar by