Rebecca Macfie

Rebecca Macfie is a journalist and recipient of more than 20 awards, including the Wolfson Press Fellowship. Her book Tragedy at Pike River Mine was a finalist for the New Zealand Post Book Award for Non-fiction, and won the Best First Book of Non-fiction Award and the Bert Roth Award for Excellence in Labour History. Helen Kelly: Her Life, her biography of the first woman to lead Aotearoa New Zealand's labour movement, published in 2021, was acclaimed as a searing modern history. In 2024 Rebecca was the JD Stout Fellow at the Stout Research Centre, Victoria University/Te Herenga Waka.