User:Stevan Eldred-Grigg

Kia ora. I'm a novelist, historian, essayist and editor living in Phillipstown, Christchurch. My main areas of interest are the history and culture of New Zealand, Polynesia and China. My training as a historian means that I work hard to look at things objectively, rationally and methodically. At the same time, I'm aware that the way we respond to the world is above all through feeling.

I'm on the political left. I'm queer. I'm left-handed. I'm an atheist. I'm Buddhist. I love trees. I smoke cannabis. I walk for an hour every day. I meditate every day. I ask myself every day what might be the meaning of the universe. My books and my edits are attempts to answer that question, at least a little.