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The late Dianne (Ruth) Pettis died in mid-2008 after publishing two novels with Hazard Press. The first, Like Small Bones, was shortlisted for the Best First Book section in theĀ Asia Pacific region for the Commonwealth Writers Prize. Dianne Pettis was a successful journalist and documentary script writer for the Natural History Unit, and her short fiction and poems have been widely published. She held the Burns Fellowship at Otago Universtiy in 2006.