Elizabeth Palmer Caffin MNZM is a writer, editor and publisher from New Zealand. [1]
Caffin began her publishing career with a position at Reed Publishing in 1976. [2] She was later the director of Auckland University Press for more than ten years. She is a kaitiaki of the Alexander Turnbull Library, and has served on a number of arts bodies including the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council, the Press Council, the Literary Fund Advisory Council and Book Publishers Association of New Zealand. [3]
In the 2005 Queen's Birthday Honours, Caffin was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to literature. [7] In 2009, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Auckland. [8]