Charlotte Randall (born Dunedin) is a New Zealand novelist.Her first novel, Dead Sea Fruit won the Reed Fiction Award, and the 1996 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book, South East Asia / Pacific. She studied psychology at the University of Canterbury. She was the 2000 Victoria University Writers' Fellow, and was the 2005 Ursula Bethell Creative Writing Resident, at Canterbury University. She teaches at New Zealand's Writers College. She is married with two children.