Caroline Lark is a fiction writer, poet and playwright, published in UK, France, NZ and Australia. She won the Hazard Press/Quote Unquote Fiction Award in 1995 with her novella, Days; her poetry collection, A Messy Affair, was published by Steele Roberts in 2011; three radio plays have been produced by Radio NZ; her latest stage play, Eros, was performed at The Court Theatre in Christchurch in 2010. 

Born in London, she studied at the University of Cambridge, UK, (Fine Arts, Philosophy, Psychology of Education tripos, BEd Hons) and Anglia Ruskin University, UK, (Postgraduate Diploma English Studies). 

 Her work is collected in the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Poetry Library, London, and on the Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington. 

Caroline is a lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry, Fiction, Memoir, Playwriting, Writing for Radio). She has run WORDSMITH courses at the University of Canterbury, the University of Auckland, the University of Otago, The Creative Hub, Auckland, Waiheke Island Summer Schools 2013/14, Waiheke Adult Learning 2019 (Fiction & Memoir) and Waiheke Community Arts 2019 (Radio Writing).

She gives individual supervision to fiction writers, poets, playwrights, radio writers and memoirists.