Rosemary Wildblood, of Porirua, MNZM, for services to literature
Rosemary Wildblood is a poet and novelist. She was National President for PEN (NZ) Inc, now the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA). She was the National Council’s Wellington regional representative and Chair of the Wellington Writers Walk. She was involved with the QEII Arts Council, where she initiated writing and publishing programmes for children and Te Reo Māori and managed the New Zealand Book Awards and Children’s Book Awards. She was involved with Creative New Zealand, where she established the Berlin Writers’ Residency and negotiated the Artists to Antarctica Programme. She was appointed a Trustee of the Winn Manson Menton Trust and instigated the annual lecture ‘The Menton Report’.