About the Author

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Emma Neale has published five novels and five poetry collections, and edited several anthologies. She is a former Robert Burns fellow (2012) and has received numerous awards and grants for her writing including the Janet Frame/NZSA Memorial Prize for Literature (2008) and the University of Otago/Sir James Wallace Pah Residency (2014). She was the Philip and Diane Beatson/NZSA Writing Fellow in 2015. Emma received the Kathleen Grattan Award for 2011 for her poetry collection The Truth Garden, and was a finalist for the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2017 for her novel Billy Bird. She holds a PhD in New Zealand Literature from University College London (UK). Since 2018 Emma has been the editor of Landfall journal. Her latest poetry collection, To the Occupant, was published this year by Otago University Press.