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Louise Wallace
Founder and Editor
Louise Wallace is a poet and holds an MA in Creative Writing from Victoria University of Wellington. She is the author of four collections published by Te Herenga Waka University Press, most recently This Is A Story About Your Mother. Her work has also featured in anthologies, including Prose Poetry: An Introduction (Princeton University Press, 2020) and Wild Honey: Reading New Zealand Women’s Poetry (Massey University Press, 2019). She was the 2015 Robert Burns Fellow at the University of Otago and the editor of Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems 2022.
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Francis Cooke
Co-editor
Francis Cooke is a Wellington-based writer. He completed an MA in Creative Writing at Victoria University in 2008 and his short fiction has been published in Landfall, Hue & Cry, JAAM and takahē.
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ISSN: 2463-6312