Pacific Islands

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...

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

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

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).

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

Gregory O’Brien’s newest poetry books are Whale Years (Auckland University Press, 2015) and Citizen of Santiago (Trapeze, 2013).

Anna Jackson lives in Island Bay, Wellington. Her most recent collection is Pasture and Flock: New and Selected Poems (Auckland University Press, 2018).

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

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.

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.

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)...

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.

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

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.

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

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

Jessie Puru is a Māori poet and mother from Auckland. She is currently the intern editor for New Zealand Poetry Society’s a fine line.

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