Piper Mejia is an advocate for New Zealand writers and liter ature. Her short fiction has been published in a range of magazines and anthologies, including Room Enough for Two, which appeared in the Sir Julius Vogel Award-winning anthology Te Korero Ahi Ka (2018). A collection of her original short stories, The Better Sister, was published by Breach in 2020. In addition to writing, Piper is a founding member of Young NZ Writers a non-profit organisation dedicated to providing writing and publishing opportunities for young writers. As a child, Piper stayed up late laughing at horror films. As an adult she has never lost her love for science fiction and horror, two genres that continues to ask the question What if