Naomi Arnold
Naomi Arnold is an award-winning freelance journalist who has been exploring science and environment stories since she began writing in 2008. She is the author of the critically-acclaimed illustrated New Zealand astronomy history Southern Nights and has published stories in most New Zealand magazines and newspapers, as well as The Guardian, The Washington Post, Pacific Standard, and the BBC. She lives outside Nelson on a few acres of hilly land that she and her husband are trapping and regenerating to encourage birdlife. A keen tramper, she walked the length of New Zealand on Te Araroa in the summer of 2024.