Photo credit: Jolyon White
Lily Duval is an author and artist who lives in Ōhinehau Lyttelton. She’s passionate about everything in the natural world – mountains, rivers, birds, plants, slime moulds – but she's particularly obsessed with invertebrates.
Her illustrated non-fiction book, Six-legged Ghosts (University of Canterbury 2024), explores our cultural attitudes to insects in Aotearoa, and she illustrated Critters of Aotearoa (Penguin 2023), by Nicola Toki.
She works for Forest & Bird as the content advisor for the Kiwi Conservation Club, editing their quarterly magazine Wild Things and sharing her love of nature with tamariki throughout the motu.
Lily is also a winner of the Whitley Award from the Royal Zoological Society of NSW.