Murdoch Stephens
Murdoch Stephens is a Wellington-based writer, publisher, and refugee advocate. He is a founding editor of the publishing collective Lawrence & Gibson and the author of several novels, including Rat King Landlord (2020) and the Ockham NZ Book Award-longlisted Down from Upland (2023)..
He is also the author of numerous non-fiction books including Doing Our Bit: the Campaign to Double the Refugee Quota (2018) and Visas Now! (2025).
At Verb Readers & Writers Festival he will release the speculative anthropology, Pākehā Metaphysics, alongside two other Lawrence & Gibson titles.
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Verb Readers & Writers Festival 2026 events Murdoch Stephens features in:
A Lawrence & Gibson Triple Book Launch