Eirlys Hunter is a London-born fiction writer who moved to Wellington, New Zealand in 1983. She has published several books for children including The Robber and the Millionaire which was short-listed for the 1997 Aim Children's Book Awards. Hunter's first novel for adults, Between Black and White, was published in 2000. She has had stories published in Landfall, Sport, and various anthologies. Eirlys Hunter teaches Writing for Children at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University.