Oceania

Stuart Cooke is an Australian poet, essayist, and translator. Cooke has published four collections of poetry, including The Grass Is Greener over Your Grave (Puncher & Wattmann, 2023) and Lyre (UWAP, 2019)...

Casey Larkin Mazer Carsel (they/them) is a Jewish artist and writer drawn to how the sharp beauty of history’s fragments are woven into homes in the cultural practice of storytelling. Their works of fiction...

Sandra Simpson is the author of breath (2011), a collection of haiku. Her poetry appears in many anthologies and journals, including Poetry & Place Anthology 2015 and Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years...

James Brown’s latest collection is Floods Another Chamber (Victoria University Press, 2017). He works and writes in Wellington.

Dylan Horrocks lives in Wellington. His graphic novels include Incomplete Works (Alternative Comics, 2015), Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen (Fantagraphics Books, 2014), and Hicksville (Drawn & Quarterly, 2010)...

Erik Kennedy is the author of the chapbook Twenty-Six Factitions (Cold Hub Press, 2017) and the full-length collection There's No Place Like the Internet in Springtime (Victoria University Press, 2018).

Anahera Gildea (Ngāti Raukawa-ki-te-Tonga) is a writer and artivist. Her first book, Poroporoaki to the Lord My God: Weaving the Via Dolorosa, was published by Seraph Press in 2016.

Talia Marshall (Ngāti Kuia/Rangitāne ō Wairau/Ngāti Rārua/Ngāti Takihiku) is a Dunedin-based writer. Her first collection of poetry is forthcoming from Kilmog Press.

Jenny Bornholdt’s latest book is Selected Poems, published by Victoria University Press, 2016.

Hera Lindsay Bird’s collection Hera Lindsay Bird was published by Penguin in 2017. She is also the author of the chapbook Pamper Me to Hell & Back (Smith | Doorstop Books, 2018).

Murray Edmond is the author of fifteen poetry books, including Shaggy Magpie Songs (Auckland University Press, 2015), and the editor of Ka Mate Ka Ora: A New Zealand Journal of Poetry and Poetics.

Kate Camp is the author of six collections of poetry from Victoria University Press, most recently The internet of things (2017).

Janet Charman’s latest collection is 仁 surrender (Otago University Press, 2017).

Michele Leggott’s latest poetry collection, Vanishing Points, was published by Auckland University Press in 2017.

Therese Lloyd is the author of The Facts (2018) and Other Animals (2013), both published by Victoria University Press.

Bernadette Hall’s tenth collection of poems, Maukatere: floating mountain, was published by Seraph Press in 2016. She received the Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry in the same year.

Essa Ranapiri | takatāpui kaituhi | they-them-theirs | has words in Mayhem, Poetry New Zealand, Brief, Starling, and THEM.

Vincent O’Sullivan lives in Dunedin and is a novelist, short story writer, biographer, playwright, and poet. He was New Zealand Poet Laureate 2013–2015.

Anne Kennedy is an award-winning poet, novelist, and screenwriter. She attended the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 2017.

Nina Powles is a writer and zinemaker. She is half Malaysian-Chinese. Her debut poetry collection, Luminescent, was published by Seraph Press in 2017.