Vickie Ferns graduated from Whitireia Polytechnic’s writing course. She is currently studying art and design at Whitireia. She writes children’s short stories on occasion. She writes for City Voice.
Biographical sources
- Correspondence from Vickie Ferns, 2 April 2004.
- Te Ao Mārama: Contemporary Māori Writing for Children. Comp. and ed. Witi Ihimaera. Contributing ed. Haare Williams, Irihapeti Ramsden and D. S. Long. Vol. 4: Te Ara o Te Hau: The Path of the Wind. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed, 1994. 334.
Fiction
- "Aotearoa Coastlands." Te Ao Mārama: Contemporary Māori Writing for Children. Comp. and ed. Witi Ihimaera. Contributing ed. Haare Williams, Irihapeti Ramsden and D. S. Long. Vol. 4: Te Ara o Te Hau: The Path of the Wind. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed, 1994. 46-47.
- A story about two families visiting the beach, living on kai moana and learning to respect the power of the sea.