Madeleine Chapman is a New Zealand writer of Sāmoan, Chinese and Tuvaluan descent and the author of Jacinda Ardern. She is also the co-author of Steven Adams’ bestselling autobiography My Life, My Fight (Penguin Random House NZ) and was a senior writer at The Spinoff until 2020. Chapman was named the 2018 Young Business Journalist of the Year and the 2019 Humour Opinion Writer of the Year. She lives in Porirua with her parents.