Lee Murray (born 1965) ONZM is a New Zealandscience fiction, fantasy, and horror writer and editor.[1] She is a third generation Chinese New Zealander who has written over forty works.[2] She is a five-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award and a twelve-time winner of the Sir Julius Vogel Award. She is most noted for her Taine McKenna military thrillers, and supernaturalcrime-noir series The Path of Ra.[3][4] In 2025 Murray was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature, particularly speculative literature.
Murray was born in Putāruru, Waikato.[1] She previously worked as a scientist and an advisor for the OECD.[1] She is the co-founder of Young New Zealand Writers with Piper Mejia, an organization which has provided development and publishing opportunities for New Zealand school students.[1][5] She suffers from anxiety and depression.[6] She currently lives in Tauranga.[7]
Awards
Her anthologies Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror and Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women won the Bram Stoker Award for Anthology in 2018[8] and 2020 respectively, while her collection Grotesque: Monster Stories won the Fiction Collection category in 2020.[9] Other works have won the Australian Shadows and Sir Julius Vogel awards.[10] She was the winner of the 2019 Bram Stoker Mentor of the year award.[11] She is a professional member of the Horror Writers Association,[12] Australian Horror Writers Association,[13] and the New Zealand Society of Authors.[14] In 2020 she was awarded the New Zealand Society of Authors Honorary Literary Fellowship.[15] In 2021 she was awarded the Grimshaw Sargeson 2021 Fellowship.[16] She won the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize 2023 with her manuscript Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud.[17][18]
In the 2025 New Year Honours, Murray was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature, particularly speculative literature.[19]
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