adult fiction, short stories, non-fiction, educational resources, blogs and articles. She has had work published in various journals including Fresh, Broadsheet and the 4th floor Literary Journal, and has written many educational resources for Learning Media and other publishers. Her work as a resource writer for the Global Education Centre dealt with topics such as "Weather Wars – The Politics of Climate Change, Parihaka and the gift of non-violent resistance", "Healing the World – Back to the Future", "Get Up! Stand Up! Music For Change", "Take Action, Money Matters", "Who Are You: the search for self in the Global Village?", "Cook Me Some Eggs, Woman! (Violence Against Women)" and "Slaves to Fashion: the threads that bind us". She has run many creative writing workshops, is a frequent visitor to schools and has appeared at numerous literary festivals, including the National Writers Forum, the Auckland Writers Festival and Verb Wellington. Hager worked for ten years as a tutor and mentor on the Creative Writing Programme at Whitireia New Zealand until the Novel Writing course she taught was disestablished. She is married with two children and two grandchildren, and lives on the Kapiti Coast. She is a sister to Nicky Hager, a prominent investigative writer and journalist. Awards and prizes Many of Mandy Hager’s books have been shortlisted for or won awards. She has won the LIANZA Book Award for Young Adult fiction three times, the New Zealand Post Book Award for Young Adult fiction, an Honour award in the Aim Children's Book Awards, Word Weavers Excellence Award (2002), Golden Wings Award (2003) and five Storylines Notable Book Awards. Tom’s Story received an Honour Award in the Picture Book category of the 1996 AIM Children’s Book Awards. Juno Lucina received a Golden Wings Excellence Award in 2002 and Run for the Trees received a Golden Wings Award in 2003. Smashed won the Esther Glen Award in the 2008 LIANZA Book Awards. The Crossing won the Young Adult Fiction category of the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards in 2010. Into the Wilderness was nominated for the Best Young Adult novel in the Sir Julius Vogel Awards in 2011. The Nature of Ash won the Young Adult fiction section of the LIANZA Book Awards in 2013 and Dear Vincent won the same section in the LIANZA Book Awards in 2014. Singing Home the Whale won both the Young Adult fiction category and the