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Poetry Chapbook

AUP New Poets 8 (Auckland University Press)

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Selected Poems

Turbine | Kapohau
2022
I am my mother’s double. I am my mother’s fetch.

HAD
2022
PRAYER IN WHICH I DO NOT SAY MANIC PIXIE DREAM GIRL

Overcommunicate: Celebration
2022
I am born, my gender two swans

Peach Mag
2022
I want our story like

Cordite
2021
Imagined heterosexuality with you, my ex who won’t stop calling

Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems
2022
All the girls who used to read Dolly have trauma now
as discussed in The Superpower of New Zealand Poetry: A Q&A With Kate Camp
& originally published in…

Stasis
2021
All the girls who used to read Dolly have trauma now
reviewed by Elizabeth Heritage here

Scum Mag
2020
stocktaking during venlafaxine discontinuation

Starling
2023
Environmental Speedrun with Little Brother (Any%)
Gift-body

TONIGHT MY HEART IS MISS PIGGY CURLY-HAIRED BRANDISHING A KNIFE


Other poems can be found in…

Out Here: An Anthology of Takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ New Zealand Writers, Landfall, Poetry New Zealand Yearbook (2023, 2022, 2021), The Spinoff, Sweet Mammalian, Starling (16, 15, 14, 12, 11), blackmail, Midway Journal, Poetry Lab Shanghai, Poetry Shelf, Rapture: An Anthology of Performance Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand, no time to lollygag, Aniko Press, Mayhem, takahē, Fresh Ink Anthology, Hills Hoist

Other non-poems can be found in…

The Pantograph Punch, The Spinoff, Salty Mag, Newsroom


Awards

2022
YWCA Aotearoa Y25 Award (25 Under 25 Listing)

2021
University of Auckland Blues Award for Creative Writing

2020
Long-listed for the Monica Taylor Poetry Prize
Highly Commended in the Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize
Shimon Weinroth Prize in Poetry
Second Place in Charles Brasch Young Writers’ Essay Competition
Kendrick Smithyman Scholarship in Poetry

2019
Best Poem in Given Words National Poetry Day Competition (Translated into Spanish here)
Highly Commended in Divine Muses New Voices - Emerging Poets Competition
Shortlisted in the Monash Undergraduate Prize for Creative Writing


Editorial Work

Poetry Editor for Salt Hill
Founding Editor for eel mag
Assistant Editor for a fine line 2021–22
Executive Editor for Interesting Journal 2021
Participant in The Suburban Review’s Emerging Editors Workshop 2021


Other

Board Member of Same Same But Different Literary Festival 2021–22
Board Member of the New Zealand Poetry Society 2021–22

Aotearoa New Zealand Lamplight Residency recipient 2021
NZSA Mentorship recipient 2021