Michelle Duff is a freelance journalist and weekly columnist for Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand's most-read news website. She writes for newspapers, magazines and websites from Australasia to the United States, including the Sunday-Star Times, Fairfax's Your Weekend magazine, The New Zealand Herald, The Listener, and Vice's women's channel, Broadly. She won general feature writer of the year at New Zealand's Canon Media Awards in 2016, for an investigation into the widening racial gap in education. She writes on health, culture, social issues, entertainment and more recently, parenting, while attempting to raise her own child and write a book. She studied psychology at Massey University, and is based in Auckland.