Noelle McCarthy

Noelle McCarthy is an author, broadcaster and producer. Stakes, her latest book is about her lifelong obsession with Bram Stoker's Dracula. Her first memoir, Grand: Becoming my mother’s daughter, won best first book of non-fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards in 2023. That year, she was the writer in residence at Victoria University’s International Institute of Modern Letters.

Noelle grew up in Ireland and started her radio career at 95bFM in Auckland in the early 2000s before going on to work at Radio New Zealand for more than a decade. She makes long-form narrative podcasts as Bird of Paradise Productions, alongside her husband, John Daniell..

Noelle lives in Featherston with John and their daughter and too many copies of Dracula.

Photo credit Kristine Crabb