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About the Author

Lynley Edmeades is the author of the creative non-fiction book Hiding Places (Otago University Press 2025); two poetry collections, As the Verb Tenses (Otago University Press, 2016) and Listening In (Otago University Press, 2019); and a poetry and art picture book for adults, Bordering on Miraculous (Massey University Press, 2022), in collaboration with Saskia Leek. She currently teaches poetry and creative writing on the English programme at the University of Otago. She is the current editor of Landfall Tauraka and teaches English and creative writing at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka.

David Eggleton (Rotuman Fijian/Tongan/Pākehā) has published ten previous poetry collections. He is a six-time winner of the Montana Reviewer of the Year, and a former Robert Burns Fellow at the University of Otago. He received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in poetry in 2016, the same year that The Conch Trumpet won the Poetry Award at the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. From 2009–17, Eggleton was editor of Landfall. He received the 2018 Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writers’ Residency and served as the New Zealand Poet Laureate 2019–22.