Linda Jane Keegan | The Spinoff

Linda Jane Keegan

Linda Jane Keegan is an environmental educator, writer, and parent. Her first book Things in the Sea Are Touching Me! was shortlisted in the 2019 New Zealand Children's Book Awards.

Linda Jane Keegan

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I wanted to use gender-neutral pronouns in my new book – my publisher pushed back

Photograph of woman in bright yellow dress, with hair dyed blue. Behind her is the cover of her book showing kororā at a beach, and a section of text with the pronouns "they" and "their" inserted in Vivid.

I wanted to use gender-neutral pronouns in my new book – my publisher pushed back

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Where the Wild Things Aren’t: on the exclusion of children from public places

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I won’t suddenly be well: On the pain of not being the mother you want to be