Sascha Stronach (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Huirapa Rūnaka Ki Pukiteraki) is an author and poet based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Her debut novel The Dawnhounds won the 2020 SJV Award for Best Novel and was subsequently picked up and re-released internationally by Simon & Schuster in 2022.

You can find her writing in The Spinoff, The Boston Review, and The Pantograph Punch.