Hannah Gabrielle Parry is a New Zealand writer and academic, who has written five fantasy novels and several works of short fiction. Parry has a PhD in English Literature from the Victoria University of Wellington and has contributed to several papers on English literature. Parry lives in Wellington where she writes and teaches English literature.
Parry's novels are contemporary fantasy and historical fantasy, and have been generally been well received by critics. A starred review in Publishers Weekly called A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians "a witty, riveting historical fantasy" and stated that "Parry has a historianâÂÂs eye for period detail and weaves real figures from history throughout her poetic tale of justice, liberation, and dark magic." A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians was nominated for the 2021 New Zealand National Science Fiction Convention Sir Julius Vogel Award.
Parry's research interests include Victorian literature and children's stories. Her PhD thesis, "The Aeneid with Rabbits: Children's Fantasy as Modern Epic", centred around Richard Adams's Watership Down. She has published articles in the Journal of New Zealand Literature, and authored chapters in Antipodean Antiquities: Classical Reception Down Under (2019) and Critical Insights: The Hobbit (2016).