Category: 2017

Maggie Rainey-Smith is a novelist, poet, essayist and reviewer. She is a direct descendant of novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott and is related to Wild Bill Lovett, an Irish-American gangster in early 20th century New York. She discovered her writing career at the ripe old age of 50.   By Maggie Alternating facts

Laura was raised in a small industrial town in Southwestern Pennsylvania, USA – Bruce Springsteen would be proud. She has lived in seven different countries, and her hobbies include reading science fiction and exploring the outdoors with her partner (but only with sufficient bug spray). She has worked as a cheese taster and a dragon …

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Marlon Moala-Knox has been and continues to be a writer, an accordion tutor, the 2010 Senior Boys +55kg NZ Judo Champion, and the co-director, co-writer, co-editor and co-composer for the YouTube webseries Fran, in which he also portrays the character Jobs Dunley. He has plans to become a drag queen. His great-grandmother’s name was Sandpaper. He …

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Mary is the woman described in this biographical note about her. She spends her days passing the time. Her hobbies include many things, as well as lesser-known aspects of general interest. Her family are all close relatives. She lives locally.   By Mary The top of the hour

Rachel Kleinsman is a Wellington-based art writer and researcher. A trained art historian, she is passionate about contemporary painting, languages and New Zealand art. Whitireia’s Creative Writing Diploma is her first foray into producing her own creative work.   By Rachel Post-Truth prophet

Helen Heath’s debut collection of poetry, Graft, was published in 2012 to critical acclaim. Graft won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book for Poetry award in 2013, and was the first book of fiction or poetry to be shortlisted for the Royal Society of NZ Science Book Prize, also in 2013. Helen recently completed …

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Sarah Jane Barnett is a writer, reviewer and creative writing teacher. Her debut poetry collection A Man Runs into a Woman was a finalist in the New Zealand Post Book Awards in 2013. Her second collection WORK was published in 2015. She is the Books Editor for arts journal The Pantograph Punch.   An interview with Sarah by Johanna Knox …

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Wesley Hollis is a creative writing student at Whitireia, based in Wellington. He enjoys volunteering, works as a library assistant and has plans to become a sci-fi and fantasy novelist in the future. He has an extensive collection of gemstones and bones, a black belt in karate and he makes bird feeders as a hobby. …

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Sue Jamieson has been writing poetry for almost 10 years. You might say she gave up her profession for poetry, but poetry does not bring you breakfast in bed. Still, she loves to wallow in her reading of poetry, especially that of the European tradition. In June 2017, she travelled to the north of Poland …

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Born in Invercargill to a Rarotongan mother and Kiwi father, he was then raised in Niue. Rob Hack has worked in both New Zealand and Australia. His many jobs have included cattle station worker, gigolo, insurance salesman, gym owner, carpenter, drug dealer, miner and night shift factory hand. Poetry first affected him at age 13, …

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