Kiran Dass lives in Auckland. She has covered music and books for the Listener, NZ Herald, Sunday magazine, Sunday Star-Times, Metro, Landfall, The Wire (UK), Radio New Zealand and 95bFM. She tweets as @SteelyDass.
Kiran Dass talks to Pip Adam about her novel The New Animals, hairdressing, narrative structure, Max Key's vlog, teaching to people affected by crime, and the terror of being a faker.