J.A. Wright (Jodi Wright), ONZM, is a New Zealand author and festival director. Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, she moved to Christchurch in 1990 and has spent more than three decades shaping the city's arts scene, founding or co-founding events including the World Buskers Festival, WORD Christchurch, and the New Zealand International Jazz & Blues Festival.

Her debut novel, How to Grow an Addict (2015), drew on her own path through addiction and recovery. Her second novel, Eat and Get Gas (2023), a coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, won the 2024 Publisher's Weekly Booklife Prize for Fiction and the Story Circle Sarton Award, and has been optioned for film and TV.

In 2024, Wright was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to Christchurch's literary and performing arts.

Her first love, however, has always been writing.