title: Wanda Cowley
text: # Wanda Cowley
  
  Wanda McKenzie Cowley (7 September 1924 – 26 September 2017) was a New Zealand children's writer.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Cowley was born in Auckland in 1924. She studied at the University of Auckland, completing a bachelor of arts degree and a diploma in education.
  
  Cowley died on 26 September 2017, at the age of 93. Her ashes were buried at Onetangi Cemetery on Waiheke Island.
  
  ### Publications
  
  * Biddy Alone (1988)
  * Trespassers (Mallinson Rendel Publishers, 1991)
  * Biddy and the Night Birds (Mallinson Rendel Publishers, 1994)
  * Scrimshaw Secret (2007)
  