Charlotte Graham-McLay is a New Zealand reporter for the Guardian and a contributor to The New York Times. Her writing and reviews have also been published by Al Jazeera, Vice, The Telegraph, the BBC, New Zealand Geographic, and Landfall. Charlotte previously worked for a decade at Radio New Zealand.

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Verb Festival 2020 appearances:
8.30pm, Nov 7: This is not how it ends (LitCrawl)