Publications

Ōkiwi Brown
The Cuba Press, 2024.
Longlisted for the Ngaio Marsh Awards, 2025
“Sanders is a master of description, and her word-paintings of early Wellington are infused with both familiarity and an obvious love for the place.” Sarah Ell, Kete

Mrs Jewell and the Wreck of the General Grant
The Cuba Press, 2022
Finalist for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction 2023, and shortlisted for NZ Booklovers Awards 2023.
“A superb novel, highly intelligent and riveting from start to finish” — Catherine Robertson, the Listener

Displaced
Walker Books, 2021
Winner of the Tessa Duder Award, 2020, shortlisted for Heritage Literary Award 2021, Storylines Notable Book, 2021. Selected by newsroom as one of the 10 best kids’ books of 2021. Shortlisted for the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults,2022.
“An inspiring and powerful story of perseverance.” – Link Pickering, Kete

Jerningham
The Cuba Press, 2020
Shortlisted for the Literary Heritage Award 2020
“Jerningham is an accomplished, vibrant and historically grounded novel which deserves a big readership. Sanders wears her research lightly; the narrative is pacy and often exhilarating and though as a modern reader you are made deeply uneasy about the insouciance with which deals are made and white superiority exerted, those homesick uncomfortable years were also filled with joy.” – Lydia Wevers

Articles, various publications